Show MAP OF CENTER OF ROCHESTER SHOWING THE BURNED DISTRICT rochester the third city in new york state in size had a population of according to the census of 1900 it Is noted for its diversified manufacturing intel ests its trade in flower and garden seeds and its nur series and as the home of many 01 the wealth est persons in the east it is the leading ity in the united states in the manufacture of optical goods and cameras has the largest preserve ing plant in the country and ranks among the three leading cities of the country in the manufacture of cloth ing the rochester nurseries and flower farms containing hundreds of acres have a world wide fame the manufacture of patent medicines Is an other important industry the city covers an area of about seventeen square miles its streets extend over miles and it has sixty miles of electric street railway lines the streets are all from 60 to feet wide bordered by fine shade trees and 1 ept in excellent condition ohp residence districts of which were saved from being swept by the fire through the absence of a strong wind contain approximately SO homes a remarkably large pro portion of which from those of the wealthy to those of the laboring peo pie are caned by the persons mccu pyeng them the business blocks in and adjacent to the district devastated by the alre have been among the ob ejects of Roches terian pride before the white man set foot in the siler ably more than a thousand 1834 it became a city with a tion in excess of 12 in its early history rochester the country in the manufacture flour the wonderful water power the genesee river which flows to ontario over tl ree high falls the limits of the city the easy of transportation over the erie canal and the fertility of the genesee val ley forming a combination 0 addan when natural laws and the tide of civilization moved the head quarters of the milling industry to the valley the inhabitants sim ply changed the spelling 0 the ad that designated their town and the flour city became the flower city A century after nathaniel rochester and his partners purchased the site the city of rochester was prodoc ng manufactured goods to the value of the cap tal invested in manufacturing and the wholesale trade was and the tac and workshops gave vork tb more than 51 operatives the to tal assessed valuation of property Is the of rochester and the rochester theological seminary both under the control of the baptist de nomination have a high standing throughout the country the war ner observatory at rochester has been a large contributor to the astronomic astro nomi cal knowledge cf the world there are valley of the genesee the land where rochester now stands was part of the domain of the iroquois indians from the indians the domain passed by sue stages to sir william aey and became the great pulteney Pul teney estate in 1803 a part of the land on which the city of rochester stands was purchased by a company headed by the man from whom the fumire city took its name nathaniel roches ter of virginia who an officer in the continental army during the war of the revolution the company plot ted the land and the first log cabin was built in 1812 in 1818 the village of rochester had a population of con flie public schools and eighty nine churches in the city |