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Penfield began as a milling town in the early 1800s, evolved into a farming community by the 1850s, and grew into one of Rochester's finest suburbs in the 1900s. Within the pages of Penfield are stories of founder Daniel Penfield and why, as a successful merchant and landowner, he left eastern New York to settle in an uninhabited wilderness; of twelve-year-old "Little Nellie" Williams, who operated the town's newspaper during the Civil War; of Almon Strowger, the inventor of the dial telephone switch; and of Timothy and Lydia Bush, direct ancestors of President George W. Bush. One of the only remaining mud houses in New York State still stands in Penfield; it and many other early structures are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Book details

• Full title: Penfield
• Author: Martin M. Wamp
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• EAN: 9780738535258
• ISBN: 0738535257
• ID: 11466832
• Publisher: ARCADIA PUB (SC)
• Weight: 295 g
• Dimensions: 238 × 165 × 8 mm
• Date of publishing: May 2004

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