Brockport Through Time

During the twentieth century Brockport, NY was transformed from a village whose economy relied heavily on manufacturing to a college town. The Erie Canal that had given the town its birth, growth, and prosperity faded as a means to ship freight, and rose as a recreational area. An educational hub grew out of a "Normal School" with a few hundred two—year students to a four—year comprehensive college and graduate school with 8,600 students. The types of retail businesses in the historic comme...