This 22-page booklet, illustrated with dozens of photos and maps, chronicles the history of the Yates-Thayer, Elm Tree Farm, 710 Latta Road.
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A History of the Seneca Park Zoo
This first comprehensive history of Seneca Park Zoo in Rochester, New York traces the many changes it has experienced over the last 125 years, evolving from a menagerie zoo seeking to amuse visitors to the habitat-conscious conservation leader it is today. Established in 1894, it is one of the oldest cultural attractions in the Rochester area. It’s sure to trigger happy memories as you read about the many animals who have delighted guests over the years: Jimmy, the chimp; polar bears Penny and Nickels and Aurora and Yukon; elephants Sally, Genny C, and Lilac; orangutans Gambar or Kumang and her mates and babies; lions Rex and Rexanne, and more.
Written by Maureen Whalen
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Building Dreams…the Odenbach Story
Volume 3 in the series about the Odenbach family and their businesses. Building Dreams…the Odenbach Story. The plant on Dewey Avenue in the Town of Greece was an indoor shipyard built in an orchard. The facility employed thousands of Rochesterians and turned out over 200 boats in its short five years of existence. John Odenbach’s patented methods of construction allowed him to build a boat every three weeks during World War II!
The Odenbach name is synonymous with entrepreneurship in Rochester. Follow family members from their start in the hotel and liquor business into quarries, shipbuilding and golf courses. Find out about the Greece Historical Society’s efforts to preserve the legacy of the family.
Author: Marie V. Poinan
Publisher: the Greece Historical Society
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Built in Greece…Odenbach Shipbuilding Corporation
Volume 2 in the series of booklets about the Odenbach family and their businesses. The Odenbach Shipbuilding Corporation built tankers, tugs, landing barges and marine cranes on Dewey Avenue for five years. John Odenbach’s patented way of bending and welding steel revolutionized the industry. He built ships in Greece, New York, Galveston, Texas and Florida, employing thousands during World War II. The company was also one of about 5% of manufacturing facilities that earned the prestigious Army-Navy “E” award for production excellence.
This new 32-page book by Marie Poinan chronicles the history of the Dewey Avenue shipyard with many historic photos that have never been published, including photos of the demolition.
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VOLUME 2 AND THE THREE VOLUME COMBO OFFER ARE NOT AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME. PLEASE CHECK BACK IN THE FUTURE.
Eight Miles along the Shore
by Virginia Tomkiewicz and Shirley Cox Husted
An illustrated, anecdotal history of Greece, NY, this 208-page book tells the town’s history from wilderness to metropolis. The award-winning book is the best available. Learn about the town’s history and its people: its business centers, Charlotte and Ridge Road, its hamlets, its farms, its schools and churches, service organizations, its parks, and even its ghost stories. The book has over 300 images, maps, and news articles.
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GHS Bicentennial Snapshot Collection On DVD
This is a 4-disc Set of the Bicentennial Snapshots that was created as a weekly series that ran from March 2022 to March 2023. Each snapshot, averaging five to 10 minutes, explored a different aspect of Greece, New York history. If Ordering the DVD set on Saturday, or Sunday the earliest day that it will ship from Trepstar is Mondays.
Disc 1: (16 Snapshots)
- THE FOUNDING OF THE TOWN OF GREECE,
- The Onödowá’ga (Oh-n’own-dough-wahgah) (Seneca is the English name),
- THE HINCHERS,
- KING’S LANDING,
- WAR OF 1812 Part 1,
- War of 1812 Part 2
- War of 1812 Part 3,
- CHARLOTTE – GENESEE LIGHTHOUSE
- GILES H. HOLDEN the first Light housekeeper
- SAMUEL AND LYDIA AND GEORGE AND FRANCES LATTA
- The Ridge Part 1
- The Ridge Part 2
- ASA ROWE, JAMES VICK AND THE BEGINNING OF THE NURSERY INDUSTRY,
- GENERAL STORES,
- ERIE CANAL,
- ‘ADA’ RIDGE HAMLET
Disc 2: (14 Snapshots)
- HENPECK / SOUTH GREECE HAMLET, HENPECK, HOOSICK, HOJACK, WHAT’S IN A NAME? Parts 1
- HENPECK / SOUTH GREECE HAMLET, HENPECK, HOOSICK, HOJACK, WHAT’S IN A NAME? Parts 2,
- “HOOSICK” / WEST GREECE,
- DOCTOR SAMUEL BEACH BRADLEY,
- NORTH GREECE / JENKIN’S CORNERS,
- THE LARKIN HOTEL,
- THE HOTEL OF MANY NAMES,
- HOTEL DE MAY,
- DOCTOR ABDIEL BLISS CARPENTER,
- “THE COOPER” TOM TOAL,
- JEROME COMBS, THE COBBLESTONE BASEBALL CATCHER,
- COBBLESTONE HOUSES PART 1
- COBBLESTONE HOUSES PART 2,
- NOTABLE HOMES IN GREECE, NY
Disc 3: (12 Snapshots)
- GHOST LEGENDS OF GREECE NY,
- EXTREME WEATHER Part 1
- EXTREME WEATHER Part 2,
- “LAFAYETTE, WE ARE HERE!” (WWI),
- CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF NORTH GREECE AND RIDGE ROAD FIRE DISTRICT
- UNSOLVED ARSON CASE – THE HOLIDAY INN FIRE OF 1978,
- OUR TOWN IN WORLD WAR II
- PADDY HILL, READ’S CORNERS, LATTA AT MOUNT READ,
- GROWING UP ON PADDY HILL FARM,
- NORTHGATE PLAZA,
- REDISCOVERING GREECE’S HISTORIC SCHOOLHOUSES OF 1872 Part 1
- REDISCOVERING GREECE’S HISTORIC SCHOOLHOUSES OF 1872 Part 2
Disc 4: (11 Snapshots)
- RUMRUNNERS AND BOOTLEGGERS,
- SPEAKEASIES,
- EPIDEMICS AND PANDEMICS,
- CHILDHOOD DISEASES,
- GORDON A. HOWE,
- DEWEY-STONE / BARNARD,
- BARNARD AND LAKESHORE FIRE DISTRICTS,
- SOME NOTABLE WOMEN OF GREECE,
- GREECE PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY,
- BUCKMAN’S DAIRY,
- Last Snapshot GONE, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
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History of Northgate Plaza
This 24-page booklet, illustrated with dozens of photos and maps, chronicles the history of the plaza, and its builder, Emil Muller, with photos and stories of the Dobson family farm that preceded the plaza.
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Hometown Sports Heroes of Greece NY
Hometown Sports Heroes of Greece, New York features 34 athletes who had prominent contributions to and careers in basketball, soccer, football, baseball, track, hockey, golf, volleyball, track, and cross country. They range in age from 26 to 87!
The book is 64 pages plus covers and is in FULL COLOR. It is chock full of photos and interviews with each sports figure in their own words. Based on interviews and the year-long exhibit in our museum.
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Images of America: Greece, NY
Greece, NY is a community of nearly 100,000 people, with its picturesque Lake Ontario shoreline, Braddock Bay and marina, and more ponds than any other locality along the lake. In the town’s early years life centered around the Port of Rochester, the Genesee River at the village of Charlotte. The agricultural community has grown to become the largest town in Monroe County. This book is a collection of marvelous pictorial memories of the amusement parks at Ontario Beach Park and Manitou Beach, the grand lakeside hotels, and the open-air trolley that slowly crossed the bay and ponds, and the two lighthouses at Charlotte and Braddock Point that guided the many vessels across the lake to and from Canada.
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Manitou Beach Trolley Days: 1891-1925
by William R. Gordon
Take a “ride” on the Manitou Beach Trolley from Charlotte to Manitou Beach in the days of lakeside beach resorts and parks as portrayed in the pictures and narrative of this reprinted rare book.
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Our Town in World War II
A 60-page commemorative book published in conjunction with the 2015 exhibit, “Our Town in World War II,” and includes Greece veterans’ interviews in their own words, a snapshot of the Odenbach shipyard and numerous pages chronicling life in the war years on the home front. A unique gift for anyone interested in learning more about the Greatest Generation and life in the Town of Greece in the 1940s.
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Pioneer Families of the Town of Greece – Volume 1
Researched and written by GHS volunteers, this 150 page book contains vignettes, nearly 400 photos, and input from current family members that highlight each family’s contribution to the town.
The following families are featured in Volume 1: Baker, Beaty, Bemish/Lane/Wilder, Britton, Captain, John Burns, Terry Burns, Butts, Carpenter/Toal, Cole/Kenyon, Denise, Eddy, Farnan, Fetzner, Joseph and Patrick Fleming, Robert Fleming, Goodwin, Hogan, Janes, Johnson, Kirk, Latta, Lay, Lowden, Mitchell, Mura, Nash, Newcomb, O’Neil, Perrin, Preston, James, Reilly, Reniff, Shearman, Speer/Carroll, Thorpe, Tiernan/McGee, Upton, Veeder, Veness, Volkmar.
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IT IS ANTICIPATED THAT VOLUME 2 WILL BE PUBLISHED IN Late 2024.
Pioneer Families of the Town of Greece – Volume 2
- Researched and written by GHS volunteers, this 150-page book contains vignettes, nearly 400 photos, and input from current family members that highlight each family’s contribution to the town.
The following families are featured in Volume 2:
Allen
Andrews
Beattie
Beck
Benedict
Blackwell
Bonesteel
Buckman
Budd
Burger/Phillips
Burns (Michael)
Button
Clarke
Coffey
Combs
Cottrell
Davis/T. Mitchell
Defendorf
Dorsey
English
Faker
Falls
Frisbee
Glass
Hadlock
Hincher
Hickox
Hopper
Keene
Lochner/Goodell
Justice
Marchant
McShea
Meech
Phelps
Quinn
Rowley
Ruggles
Sage/Cason
Sharpe
Spaulding
Vick
Weitz
Whelehan
Wietz
Williams
Worboys
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Late 2024
The Architecture of James H. Johnson
The Architecture of James H. Johnson documents the life and work of Rochester, New York’s most innovative 20th century architect. In a career spanning nearly 60 years, Johnson designed hundreds of buildings in the greater Rochester area. Johnson’s daring, expressive designs remain some of the boldest and most creative contributions to the region’s architectural heritage. He is known locally as the designer of Rochester’s Liberty Pole, the Antell-Whitman House (better known as the “Mushroom House”) in Perinton, St. John the Evangelist Church in Greece, and Temple Sinai in Brighton. His other works are not generally well-known, nor is the sheer number of buildings he designed appreciated by either the general public or the architectural community. This book of 170 pages, includes 165 color and black-and-white images, and brings to light the work of this talented man.
“The Architecture of James H. Johnson” is presently out of stock. We anticipate printing more in the next few months. If you are interested in getting on a waiting list, please email us at: greecehistoricalsociety@yahoo.com
The Barns of Greece, N.Y.
This 64-page book originally published in 2017 tells with photos and stories recalling days prior to post-war (WW2) suburbanization when Greece was largely agricultural.
At least seven of the 60 barns pictured in the book have since been demolished, with more threatened by lack of attention and lack of resources for upkeep.
Author Jane Grant began photographing existing barns and interviewing their owners. A large display of her photos and stories about the barns was featured at the museum in 2017. The best part of the project, says Jane, “was meeting delightful people who graciously shared their stories. Many of them were from the farming families who built our town’s reputation for quality garden produce and fruit, and who also contributed to community life in varied ways.”
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The Odenbach Shipbuilding Corporation
Volume 1 in the series of books about the Odenbach family and their businesses. This 24-page booklet has more than 40 photos and illustrations the history of the Odenbach Shipbuilding complex on Dewey Ave.
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