Rochester

Awakening feelings of nostalgia and community

deep within each of us, the images contained in

Rochester deliver us to a time when Hanson's Street

was but a footpath through Domincus Hanson's

garden, and Central Square was filled with bustling

businesses and the whistle of the railroad.

This new photographic history takes us on a journey

from the era following the Civil War when the town

became a city and Dodge's Hotel was a prominent

feature downtown, to the days of drugstore soda

fountains and shiny new filling stations. Over 200

views of Rochester, Gonic, and East Rochester fill the

pages of this volume, each image helping us to satisfy

our curiosity about the past and enabling us to make

connections with the fast-moving times of the present.