The Rochester Historical Society Publication Fund Series, Vol. IX [Volume 9]

xvii, 407 pp. Includes: Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Officers and Mangers, 1930; Presidents from 1860 to 1930; Foreword by Edward R. Foreman; Journal of Chevalier de Baugy; Riding the Great Flood; Reminiscences of the Great Flood; The Rochester Female Charitable Society; Early Shipping on the Lower Genesee River: Reminiscences of Captain Hosea Rogers; Transportation in the Early Days of Western New York; Valuable Source Material of History: The Henry O'Reilly Documents; The Old Powder Mills; Captain Timothy Allyn: Distinguished Pioneer in the Genesee Country; Through Northern Waterways to Grecian Shores; Mendon Ponds Park Exercises; The Srantoms and Barnards in Rochester; Early Street cars in Rochester; Livingston Park People and Traditions; The Ridge Road; The First Book Printed in Rochester; Congress and the Oregon Question; Historiettes: Big Redwoods in Rochester, Sir Thomas More's Head, Hard Cider Victorious, Masons in the Burn Block, Shipping on the Upper Genesee River, The Spelling of Tonawanda, When the City Bought Whiskey and Cigars, When Locomotives Were Christened, Early Agricultural Papers, The Rochester House, Smith Street and Its Bridge, One of the Famous Falls of Rochester, Napoleon's Cousin a Rochester Schoolmaster, Miss Sally M. Hall, Israel Scrantom's Hammer.