GEO. MONROE ROCHESTER NY STEREOVIEW IRONDEQUOIT BAY SUNSET BUFF PT ROWBOAT

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Photographs throughout Ad:Offered for auction is an early stereoview Photographed by Geo. H. Monroe, Rochester, N.H. The stereoview is titled as follows -- --NO. 681 SUNSET FROM BUFF PT, IRONDEQUOIT BAY -NOT MENTIONED NEW YORK --Irondequoit Bay is a large body of water located in northeastern Monroe County, New York. The bay, roughly 0.5 miles (0.80 km) wide and 4 miles (6.4 km) in length, is fed by Irondequoit Creek to the south and flows into Lake Ontario at its northern end. On average, the surface of Irondequoit Bay rests at 245 feet (75 m) above sea level and is 80 feet (24 m) deep at its deepest point a short distance north of the Irondequoit Bay Bridge carrying the six-lane New York State Route 104 over the bay.The center of the bay acts as the eastern border for the town of Irondequoit and the western border of the towns of Penfield and Webster. The Irondequoit-Penfield boundary continues along the center of Irondequoit Creek south of the New York State Route 404 float bridge.During the past million years there were four glacial ages that covered the Rochester area with ice and impacted the geography of the area. The most recent glacier that left evidence here was about 100,000 years ago and it caused compression of the earth by as much as 2,500 feet (760 m) About 12,000 years ago, the area underwent massive changes, which read more