Rochester - Genesee Brewery

We make plans to meet a former Co-worker and Highschool friend, Darlene, who works downtown at the Genesee Brewery for Lunch.  We get a table on the upstairs balcony

 A really nice view of the Falls

 After a great lunch and visit, Darlene is back off to work and Gary, Tucson and I walk over to the High Falls District

 Brown's Race was constructed in 1815. Diverting water from a point about 500 feet south of High Falls, the raceway was 1221 feet long (later extended), 30-feet wide and five-and-a-half feet deep powering Mills along the raceway. Eventually the race was covered by a wooden plank roadway.  In 1991-92 portions of the original Brown's Race were uncovered; concrete planks delineate the original width of the raceway.

 The Triphammer Forge Building burned in 1977. As the rubble was cleared, a long-forgotten basement room was uncovered that held the buildings large (25-foot) water wheel, made of wood and iron.

A portion of the original Gorsline Building is now a terrace park for viewing the falls and river gorge.

 Site of the original wheel pit of Rochester’s early saw mill, and The Leap, a small balcony near the spot where waterfall daredevil Sam Patch took his last jump. More than half of Rochester watched as Sam took his fatal plunge on Friday the 13th of November, 1829

 It's a bit dizzying looking at the Falls from this perspective

 The Kodak Tower

 and we return back across the Pont de Rennes pedestrian bridge.