LowerFallsNY

Flower City Feeling Good Bike Ride
This Wednesday 8/25 - Maplewood Park
107 Bridgeview Drive

Learn to navigate Rochester by bike. Comfortable 7-10 mile ride at a casual pace. Rochester's Bike Boulevard network and bike safety education emphasized on every ride.

Bring your own bikes, helmets and other equipment, and follow required CDC guidelines.

Meet this Wednesday at 6:45 pm for warm-up stretches with Exercise Express. RIDES START PROMPTLY at 7pm.

Sponsored by the City of Rochester,
DRHS and Exercise Express.
cityofrochester.gov/FCFG/

Questions?
Email [email protected]

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This weekend is the 1816 Meetinghouse’s program on “The Famous Friendship of Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass" - the second in their free series: The Struggle for Women’s Suffrage: Politics and Race offered with support from Humanities NY.

August 22 @ 2pm
Granger Homestead
293 N. Main Street
Canandaigua.

Speaker Carol Faulkner, associate dean and professor of history at Syracuse University, specializes in 19th century America, U.S. women, gender, sexuality and social movements. Faulkner will speak on the deep, long-term, and often severely tested friendship of Anthony and Douglass, these two larger-than-life activists. She will speak from the balcony at our co-sponsor Granger Homestead to the audience seated under canopies on the lawn. Informal Q & A to follow.

https://www.farmingtonmeetinghouse.org/events-1/the-famous-friendship-of-susan-b-anthony-and-frederick-douglass-1

Here is a small collection of historic images from Maplewood Park taken 1900-1908.

How lucky we are for Frederick Law Olmsted and the Detroit Publishing Co. for taking the images.

POSTCARD

"Lower Falls of Genesee and
Driving Park Ave. Bridge,
Rochester, N. Y."
Dated: Between 1907 and 1915
Published by: Scrantom, Wetmore
& Company, Publishers,
Rochester, N. Y.
Number: 1005

“Libraries and museums are the DNA of our culture.”
― Vartan Gregorian

Located in the heart of Downtown Rochester, NY, at 115 South Avenue, the Central Library of Rochester & Monroe County offers the residents of the City and County a large collection of books, (both print and electronic) magazines, music, movies and more.

This collection includes many valuable historical documents. They are a treasure trove for anyone wanting to know more about our City's history and the surrounding area.

History of Carthage and Genesee River before 1839
The Centennial Album 1839-1939 of the Town of Irondequoit is a treasure that recaps the history of the first 100 years of the town plus a valuable history of the first pioneers who, twenty years before the founding of the Town, settled the lands around the Lower Falls of the Genesee River.

View this document in our virtual museum.
https://lowerfallsfdn.org/irondequoit-centennial-album/

Each April on Olmsted's birthday, his legacy is celebrated throughout the country. For Rochester, that means expressing gratitude for our "Emerald Necklace" of parks - Genesee Valley Park, Highland Park, Seneca Park and Maplewood Park.

Each of these parks is a blessing and reflects a vision of American communities and American society still relevant today—a commitment to visually compelling and accessible green space that restores and nurtures the body and spirit of all people, regardless of their economic circumstances.

Maplewood Park Rose Garden

As the master gardener and rosarian at Maplewood Park & Rose Garden for over 30 years, Paul Mitchell witnessed many changes. This small collection of photos taken by Paul represents just a few of them.

See link in bio.
https://lowerfallsfdn.org/maplewood-park-rose-garden/

Guided River Paddle of the Lower Genesee River

Join the Genesee RiverWatch and Erie Canal Boat Company for a guided river paddle next weekend, May 28-30. The new City of Rochester launch site at Petten Street will be the gateway to explore the “wilderness in a city” between Rochester’s harbor and Lower Falls.

Choose a day and time when making your reservation. We will leave at 9:00 and 1:00 each day. Interesting historical sites will include the Underground Railway and the cross-lake ferry and coal shipping docks.

Directions: Turn off Lake Avenue onto Petten Street and follow the street downhill to the parking area adjacent to the river.

Learn more: https://geneseeriverwatch.org/2021/05/11/may-weekend-paddles/

Genesee Brewing Co. - Antique Serving Tray
This antique Genesee Brewery Company serving tray features a wonderful painting of the Lower Falls of the Genesee River with Native Americans in 1799. The tray was produced by the Charles W. Shonk Company in the 1890s—possibly in 1899, since the painting indicates the year 1799, which may have been intentional.

The painting is valuable because it interprets the lives of Native Americans near the Lower Fall Gorge, (which was only one mile north from the Brewery) before very many people of European heritage arrived.



View tray and learn more:
https://lowerfallsfdn.org/antique-serving-tray/