Remembering Rochester

Half a century ago, Avon Township held its annual meeting and considered its options for a new cemetery.  Rochester had just become a city t...

Fifty years ago this month, Rochester welcomed a new automobile dealer to town.  L. Keith Crissman, the community's Chevrolet dealer at ...

February 1967 was an important milestone in the history of Rochester.  Just a few weeks from the 150th anniversary of the settlement of Roch...

With the start of another new year, we turn our attention to the events of a half century ago in Rochester, during the year 1967.  In Janu...

Fifty years ago this month, Rochester's two funeral homes, Potere and Pixley, made a joint announcement.  The two firms notified the cit...

In November 1966, the citizens of Rochester celebrated an improvement to the Avon Township Park (known today as Rochester Municipal Park).  ...

It's been half a century since touch-tone telephone service was inaugurated in the Rochester area.  In September 1966, Michigan Bell off...