About this city
Also known as: Flour City, Flower City, The World's Imaging Capital
Rochester is a powerful, globally legendary cultural, technological, and industrial powerhouse beautifully straddling both banks of the Genesee River as it empties into Lake Ontario's southern coast. Incorporated in 1834, the city rapidly blossomed into the premier flour milling capital of the world before dynamically transforming into the international birthplace and dominant headquarters of corporate giants like Eastman Kodak, Xerox, and Bausch & Lomb. Today, Rochester seamlessly balances its heavy precision engineering and optics legacy with world-class music conservatories and progressive public parks.
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Suggested stay: 2–3 days
View the history of photography and step inside the Gilded Age rooms at the George Eastman Museum, watch a live concert at the Eastman School of Music, and photograph High Falls in the heart of downtown.
