Rochester: Kodak, Xerox, and the Genesee River
Rochester sits on the Genesee River a few miles south of Lake Ontario and is the seat of Monroe County. The city holds about 210,000 residents, with a metropolitan area around 1 million. The Genesee drops over three waterfalls within the city limits, including High Falls in downtown, where early flour mills and later photographic and optical industries drew on water power.
George Eastman founded Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester in 1888, and the firm dominated the city's economy through most of the twentieth century. At its peak Kodak employed more than 60,000 people locally. Xerox, founded in Rochester in 1906 as the Haloid Photographic Company, introduced the Xerox 914 copier in 1959 and anchored the research campus known as Xerox Park. Both companies contracted sharply after the 1990s as film and mechanical copying gave way to digital technology.
Susan B. Anthony lived at 17 Madison Street from 1866 until her death in 1906; the house is preserved as the Susan B. Anthony Museum. Frederick Douglass published the abolitionist newspaper North Star in Rochester starting in 1847 and is buried at Mount Hope Cemetery. The University of Rochester, founded in 1850, operates the Eastman School of Music and is one of the city's largest current employers along with its affiliated medical center.
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Rochester sits on the Genesee River a few miles south of Lake Ontario and is the seat of Monroe County. The city holds about 210,000 residents, with a metropolitan area around 1 million. The Genesee drops over three waterfalls within the city limits, including High Falls in downtown, where early flour mills and later photographic and optical industries drew on water power.
George Eastman founded Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester in 1888, and the firm dominated the city's economy through most of the twentieth century. At its peak Kodak employed more than 60,000 people locally. Xerox, founded in Rochester in 1906 as the Haloid Photographic Company, introduced the Xerox 914 copier in 1959 and anchored the research campus known as Xerox Park. Both companies contracted sharply after the 1990s as film and mechanical copying gave way to digital technology.
Susan B. Anthony lived at 17 Madison Street from 1866 until her death in 1906; the house is preserved as the Susan B. Anthony Museum. Frederick Douglass published the abolitionist newspaper North Star in Rochester starting in 1847 and is buried at Mount Hope Cemetery. The University of Rochester, founded in 1850, operates the Eastman School of Music and is one of the city's largest current employers along with its affiliated medical center.
Escort sites active in the Rochester area are indexed and reviewed on Escortservice.com. The directory does not book any service, attest to any operator's credentials, or broker transactions. The minimum age for use is 21.
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