Rochester and the history

The natives of the Seneca tribe of Indians called the Genesee the "river of many cases". It was also the river and in particular the 30 meter high waterfall located in the city center, which contributed to the early industrialization of Rochester. Between the arrival of the first white settlers in 1789 in Rochester and the construction of the Erie Canal in 1823 was a flourishing city not to see. Only the end of construction of the canal changed everything. The Erie Canal connected the Great Lakes with lower capital Albany and the Hudson River to New York City and led by a continuing boom in the city.