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1895 Map of Ontario Beach

Name: 1895 Topographic Map of Ontario Beach
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1895
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1895

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Lake Ontario dominates the northern reaches of this 1894 survey, where the shoreline of Greece is defined by a series of significant marshes and lagoons. This coastal landscape includes Braddock Bay, Cranberry Pond, and Buck Pond, separated from the lake by narrow barrier beaches. At the mouth of the Genesee River, the settlements of Ontario Beach and Windsor Beach mark a developed waterfront, anchored by the Genesee L.H. and served by the Electric R. R..

Further inland, the rural character of Monroe County is visible through scattered rail stops and family-named landmarks like Frisbee Hill and Mount Read. The R. W. & O. R. R. (Niagara Falls Line) cuts across the township, connecting Greece Sta. with the burgeoning industrial and transit networks of the late nineteenth century. These early transportation corridors, including Larkin Creek and Salmon Creek, illustrate the drainage patterns that shaped local settlement prior to heavy twentieth-century suburbanization.