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(More customer reviews)Nothing is more apparent in a local history book when its author takes pride in his/her work. Martin Wamp articulately portrays his home town in family photos, anecdotes, and describes how Penfield has changed, yet remained the same, since the building of the Erie canal. An excellent piece of work, highly reccomended to the amateur and local historian.
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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.
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