Living in Greece Stories

Stories and recollections from the people, places, and publications that document life in the Town of Greece.

These articles offer perspectives on what it was like to live in the Town of Greece in the past. Many are from the archives or newsletters of the Greece Historical Society. If you would be interested in learning more about the Town of Greece’s history, please feel free to contact us at (585) 225-7221.

(These stories are the property of the Greece Historical Society, which retains all right thereto. The contributors to these stories provide them for non-commercial, personal, educational, and/or research use only. Prior written permission from the Greece Historical Society and the individual authors must be obtained for any other use, including but not limited to commercial or scholarly publications, or any reproductions or redistribution of any kind.)

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We love to read stories and memories by you or your organization. Submit a local history story or memory of growing up in the Town of Greece by emailing a zip file with your story and photos to greecehistoricalsociety@yahoo.com. Use the subject line: Share My Story of Local History or Memories Of Greece N.Y. plus your story title. Include a brief bio and one photo for publication.

Your story should be no more than 500 words. We can edit for continuity, grammar, and punctuation. Stories may cover one span or multiple spans: 1800-1850, 1900-1950, 1950-2000, and 2000-Present.

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This ashtray was presented to Judson S Kenyon in 1948, in commemoration of his long-standing involvement in the Greece Republican Party.

Judson S. Kenyon

November 4, 2023 |
An ashtray artifact at the Greece Museum led to the discovery of Judson S. Kenyon, a notable personality from Greece, New York. Born in 1872, Kenyon was highly active in local politics and the Greece Baptist Church, earning a dedicated ashtray from the Greece Republican Party in 1948. He passed...
Categories: 1850-1900 1900-1950 1950-2000 Corinthian Guest Stories Living in Greece Stories
Tags: 1872 1920 1948 1963 Arthur Rickman Ashtray Barry County clerk deacon Deborah Cole Myers elephant Elizabeth L Rowe English Road Falls Cemetery Greece Baptist Church Greece Grange Greece Republican Party historian Juddy Kenyon Judson S. Kenyon Kate (Rickman) Justice Long Pond Rd Michigan Pioneer Families Rhode Island Rochester Business Institute teacher treasurer trustee Willard H Justice Williams James Kenyon
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They Gave Their Talent for the Benefit of the Community

June 1, 2023 |
Deep in the back of a rather large yard at Paddy Hill, hidden among the weeds and overgrown brush, is what appears to be the foundation of an old structure. Adolescents finding this structure could easily imagine themselves as an explorer discovering the ruins of an ancient civilization. A less...
Categories: 1900-1950 1950-2000 Living in Greece Stories
Tags: "shanty" "The Cat and the Canary" 1931 1946 1947 1948 1955 1957 76 Productions Auditorium Theater comedies Common School District 5 Cornell University Democrat & Chronicle Greece Post melodramas mysteries Paddy Hill Paddy Hill Players Paddy Hill Players troupe philanthropic group premier amateur theatrical group PTA Statewide Contest Times-Union Newspaper Walter Whelehan Whelehan Whelehan Family Farm
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The Dutch Mill – A Community Gathering Place

May 1, 2022 |
The Dutch Mill - April 17, 2022 Every community or neighborhood has a gathering place. Over time many come and go, they may change hands or change their name, but eventually something happens and the old place becomes nothing but a memory to the local old timers. Then there are...
Categories: 1900-1950 Dewey-Stone Area Living in Greece Stories
Tags: 1932 1947 1948 1984 2016 2022 Ann Marie and Bob Simmons Barnard Fire Department Bertha Cox Chester and Sharon Ventura Cinema Restaurant Clam bakes Donald Hall Leon Cox Odenbach Peacock Room Old Mill old windmill Thomas Brierly Jr. Thomas Brierly Sr.
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The Ridgeway Air Park

January 1, 2022 |
For years during the 20th century, many communities in our area had their own airports ranging from grassy fields to paved run­ ways with hangers to store airplanes. Hilton had the Hilton Airport on Burritt Road. The Brizee airport in Pittsford was on Marsh Road. In Henrietta, there was the...
Categories: 1900-1950 Living in Greece Stories
Tags: "Power Puff Derby" 1947 1948 1955 1956 Army Air Corps veteran Britton Field Brizee airport Burritt Road Erie Canal Genesee Airfield Greece Aero Club Greenleaf Flying Club Henrietta Hilton Hilton Airport Honeoye Falls Hylan Airport Jim Earl Koda Vista Kuhn Road Latona Tract Lee Roads Leroy Marsh Road Monroe County Pittsford Richard (Dick) Kaiser Ridgeway Air Park Ridgeway Avenue Roy DeVal Salt Lake City Scottsville Road Shoremont The Greece Press Town of Greece Woodward Field World War I World War II WWI WWII
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“Apples, Pine Trees and Boxing Gloves!”

September 1, 2019 |
We've explained apples and pine trees...... What about boxing gloves...? Mr. Edward Sturm had once been in the furniture business on Joseph Ave. and knew well how to greet custom­ ers and run a successful retail venture. The tavern business was a bit different, but Edward slowly built the Pine...
Categories: 1900-1950 Living in Greece Stories
Tags: 1225 Ridge Road West 1914 1920 1928 1933 1948 1964 Alice Conroy Apples Bankruptcy Bowling Boxing Gloves Clement Versluy Cuba Democrat and Chronicle Edward Sturm Europe Henry Clune Joseph Ave. Lake Ave Man­itou Road Mexico Mike Conroy Pine Tree Inn Pine Trees Shale Gans Shales (Sol) Gans Speakeasies
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