After Thoughts

Five years ago the CHNA board of directors was presented with a request for a “Son House Tribute” plaque to be erected at Lunsford Circle. None of us had heard […]

Present Corn Hill residents pride themselves on involvement in their neighborhood – something they have diligently worked to build and retain. Yet over 90 years ago and for a span […]

Many of Rochester’s beautiful parks and parkways were designed in the 1880s by 19th century American landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. The most well-known of these include Highland, Genesee Valley, […]

Part 1 There are two men with the same last name—Roswell Hart (1773-1824) and Romanta Hart (1800-1877)—who moved from Connecticut to Brighton, New York in the early Nineteenth Century. I […]

At the height of demonstrations following George Floyd’s death by asphyxiation when Minneapolis policemen knelt on him during an arrest, the quarterback for the New Orleans Saints of the National […]

Part 1 I became the Corn Hill historian in October 2014. I knew little about our neighborhood’s past and immediately set about reading everything I could find. The first significant […]