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Rochester is a city in and the county seat of Monroe County, New York, and with 211,328 residents at the 2020 census it is the fourth-most populous city in New York State.

Rochester was founded in 1788, incorporated as the village of Rochesterville on March 21, 1817, and incorporated as a city on April 28, 1834, taking its name from founder Nathaniel Rochester.

Rochester has about 93,000 households according to Census Bureau figures for 2020-2024, averaging just 2.14 people per household, and only about 38% of its homes are owner-occupied.

Rochester earned the nickname 'Flour City' as an early flour-milling powerhouse and later 'Flower City' for its nursery and floriculture trade, and it is also called the 'World's Image Center' for its film, optics, and photography industries.

Rochester is the birthplace or home of Eastman Kodak, Xerox, Bausch & Lomb, Wegmans, Constellation Brands, Gannett, Paychex, Western Union, and Ray-Ban.

Rochester is home to the University of Rochester and the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), two internationally renowned research universities, as well as the Eastman School of Music.

Rochester's Highland Park, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, holds the largest collection of lilacs in North America, with more than 500 varieties celebrated each May at the Rochester Lilac Festival, a tradition begun in 1898.

The George Eastman Museum, founded in 1947 on the estate of Kodak founder George Eastman, is the world's oldest photography museum and one of the oldest film archives in the world.

The Genesee River runs through the heart of Rochester over a series of waterfalls, including the High Falls in downtown, which once powered the city's flour mills.

Rochester was the home of women's rights leader Susan B. Anthony, whose house on Madison Street is now the National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House, a National Historic Landmark.