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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