The Roots of the Flower City: Horticulture, Empire, and the Remaking of Rochester, New York
As the first boomtown in the United States, Rochester was an embodiment of the market revolution in the early United States. But when the Panic of 1837 struck the region, the economic foundations of the city collapsed. In the wake of this collapse, a new group of horticulture reformers sought to reform the city, region, and their residents. By the mid-nineteenth century, the city became home to a group of plant nurserymen and seed dealers whose transnational reach remade the North American landscape and transformed Rochester from the Flour City into the Flower City.
University of Rochester alumnus Camden R. Burd (MA15 PHD19 FS), is a historian of nineteenth and twentieth-century US history at Clemson University. His first book, The Roots of Flower City: Horticulture, Empire, and the Remaking of Rochester, New York was published by Cornell University Press in 2024.
Registration for this free program is encouraged, but not required:
https://calendar.libraryweb.org/event/14171390
This is an in-person program that will also be livestreamed at:
https://www.youtube.com/@RochesterPublicLibraryNY/streams
The Neilly Author Series and Dr. Matthew E & Ruth Harmon Fairbank Alumni Lecture presented by the River Campus Libraries and the School of Arts and Sciences in partnership with the Local History & Genealogy Division of the Rochester Public Library.
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