Centennial History of Rochester, New York, Volume I [1] - Beginnings

viii, 403 pp. Numerous illustrations and maps throughout, including several fold-outs. CONTENTS: Poem: My City, by Margaret Root Garvin; Illustrations; Foreword: The Centennial History of Rochester, by Edward R. Foreman; Memories of a Hundred Years, by Edward R. Foreman; The First Human Occupants of the Rochester Region, by Arthur C. Parker; French Penetration of the Genesee Country, by Edward R. Foreman; From La Salle to Indian Allan: The Appraisal of a Cataract's Utility, by Nathaniel S. Olds; Physical Causes of Rochester's Prosperity: Physiography of the Rochester Regions, by Herman LeRoy Fairchild; The Climatology of Rochester, by Jesse L. Vanderpool; Crown Grants and Early Land Claims Affecting the Rochester Region, by Edward R. Foreman; Maps Showing Iroquois Hereditary Lands, by W. Pierrepont White; The Romance of Milling: With Rochester the Flour City, by Maude Motley; Out of the Past: How the Ghost of the Ancient Hartford Treaty Reappeared at Rochester, by Arthur E. Sutherland; Rochester: Its Name and Its Founder, by Edward R. Foreman; Summary of the Population of Rochester; Summary of Rochester's Charter History; Mayors of Rochester; Annals of Rochester: 1535-1931, by Edward R. Foreman; Index.