My Adventures to Upstate New York: My name in Scottsville

On my tour to Upstate New York, I took a pitstop from between Rochester and Niagara Falls, there was a town that has my name in it and it was called Scottsville. It's so interesting to see a town that has my name on it as I wanted to take a picture by the sign of the place. If I would've take a ficitonal state of Scottville, I would've make this state into an American European Style Area with shopping plazas with town centres in large subrubs and greater transportation resorces and plenty of farms and parks with of the most intresting part of the state.

Scottsville, New York, is a small village in the Town of Wheatland, Monroe County, about 10 miles southwest of Rochester in the Genesee Valley. It is one of the oldest permanent European-American settlements west of the Genesee River. The area was opened to settlement after the Revolutionary War’s Sullivan Campaign against the Iroquois. In 1786, frontiersman Ebenezer “Indian” Allan (or Allen) settled on the flats along Oatka Creek near its junction with the Genesee River, building a log cabin on the north bank. He sold the land in 1789 to Peter Sheffer (and family), who became the first permanent settlers; Sheffer’s son Peter Jr. married Elizabeth Schoonover that same year the first marriage between white settlers west of the Genesee. In 1790, Isaac Scott arrived from New England which is now Vermont, purchased about 150 acres from the Wadsworths (British owners) that covered most of the present village, and built a log house at the southwest corner of what is now Main and Rochester Streets. The village is named for him. Early growth brought more settlers, stores (Abraham Hanford opened the first on Main Street in 1813), a doctor (Freeman Edson in 1814), mills powered by Oatka Creek, and the Farmers’ Library (founded 1805, one of the earliest in western New York).

The 1830s–1840s were boom years. Wheat was “king” in the fertile Genesee Valley; local flour commanded premium prices in New York and Boston markets. Mills, a short canal link (Scottsville and Genesee River Canal, 1837) to the Erie Canal system, and the Scottsville and Le Roy Railroad (1837–38) supported prosperity. Farmers and merchants built elegant Post-Colonial, Greek Revival, and cobblestone homes that still define the village’s character. Many sites, including the Rochester Street Historic District, Windom Hall (1891–92, now the library), Union Presbyterian Church, and several houses and farmsteads, are on the National Register of Historic Places. Wheat production later declined (partly due to pests), and mills suffered a major fire in 1895, but the village remained a quiet agricultural and residential community. It was formally incorporated on October 16, 1914. Today it retains a charming small-village feel with historic architecture, proximity to Rochester, and ties to the surrounding farmland of Wheatland.

Today, the town lives on with a piece of history which was once known as transported goods from the Genesee River and independent historical figures of the city was run before 20th century.