Small Parks

VINTAGE VIEWS OF ROCHESTER

OTHER PARKS

ALLEN'S CREEK & CORBETTS GLEN
BROWN SQUARE
CHURCHVILLE PARK
FRANKLIN SQUARE
HAMLIN BEACH STATE PARK (NORTHWEST BEACH PARK)
JONES SQUARE
MENDON PONDS PARK
PLYMOUTH PARK
POWDER MILL PARK
WADSWORTH SQUARE
WASHINGTON SQUARE
WEBSTER BEACH PARK (NINE MILE POINT PARK)

ALLEN'S CREEK & CORBETTS GLEN

ALLEN'S CREEK & CORBETTS GLENPOST CARDS

    Scene, Allen's Creek, Rochester, NY
    Scene on Allen's Creek, Rochester, NY
    Allen's Creek along the R. S. & E. R. R., near Rochester, NY
    Allen's Creek at Corbetts Glen, Rochester, NY
    Rustic Bridge, Corbetts Glen, Rochester, NY

BROWN SQUARE

TIMELINE

1817

4.5 acre site reserved, but not chosen, for first county courthouse.

1840's

Used for cricket & baseball games.

1850's

Militia parade ground.

1904

City's first playground.

ROWN

QUARE

OST

ARDS

Brown Square and Wading Pool, Rochester N. Y.

Brown Bros. Park, Rochester, NY

CHURCHVILLE PARK

TIMELINE

1926

Park opens.

FRANKLIN SQUARE

FRANKLIN SQUARE POST CARDS

View in Franklin Square, Rochester, NY
Franklin Square, Rochester, NY

HAMLIN BEACH STATE PARK (NORTHWEST BEACH PARK)

TIMELINE

1928

Northwest Beach Park opens

19**

Becomes Hamlin Beach State Park in land swap with county for Webster Park.

AMLIN

EACH

TATE

ARK

OST

ARDS

   Hamlin Beach State Park, Hamlin, N. Y.
   Hamlin Beach State Park, Hamlin, N. Y.
   Hamlin Beach State Park and Parkway
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JONES SQUARE

TIMELINE

1860-70's

6.7 acres (largest early park) large scale games were played here.

1895

Olmsted designs park, redesigned by local politicians. Olmsted asked to fix new design.

1903

Citizens provide floral display - Showplace garden of Rochester.

ONES

QUARE

OST

ARDS

    Jones Park, Rochester, NY
    Jones Park, Rochester, NY
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MENDON PONDS PARK

TIMELINE

Many examples of glacial geology

1687

Visited by French military expedition

1825

Jeremiah Stewart cobblestone home
Joshua Lilly family cemetery

1850's

Underground railroad route

1928

Purchased by county as game preserve and forest

PLYMOUTH PARK

TIMELINE

1903

Citizens provide floral display

LYMOUTH

ARK

OST

ARDS

    Plymouth Park and Cornhill Church, Rochester, NY
     Plymouth Park, Rochester, NY
    Plymouth Square, Rochester, NY

POWDER MILL PARK

TIMELINE

1935

Constructed by Emergency Work Bureau

WADSWORTH SQUARE

TIMELINE

1903

Citizens provide floral display.

WASHINGTON SQUARE

TIMELINE

1817

Elisha Johnson sets aside Washington Square from his 80 acre plot for the village's first park. Located between South and Court Sts. and Monroe and Clinton Ave. Site for large public gatherings, rallies, and religious events.

1860

Frederick Douglass gives anti-slavery speeches at Washington Park

1870

State Arsenal built facing the south end of Washington Square.

1892

Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument dedicated with speech by President Benjamin Harrison.

1907

State Arsenal on Washington Square converted to Rochester Convention and Publicity Bureau.

ASHINGTON

QUARE

OST

ARDS

    Soldiers and Sailors Monument Washington Park, Convention Hall in distance, Rochester, NY
     Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, Washington Square, Rochester, N. Y.
    Washington Park, showing Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Rochester, NY
    Clinton Avenue South at Washington Park, showing Soldiers and Sailors Monument.
    Washington Place, Rochester, NY

WEBSTER BEACH PARK (NINE MILE POINT PARK)

TIMELINE

Indian Spring is early landmark

1813

Sept. 11, Naval battle between British & American fleets. Locals watch 3-hour battle from shore. British suffer casualties.

1835

John F Whiting farm, has tannery and sawmill on creek.

1904

State Hospital Annex -a psychiatric facility,

1937

WPA builds park, in trade with state, becomes a county park (Nine Mile Point Park). NY takes Hamlin Beach (Northwest Beach Park)

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