Henrietta, New York Monroe County New York incorporated and unincorporated areas Henrietta highlighted.svg Location in Monroe County and the state of New York.
Location of New York in the United States Henrietta is a town in Monroe County, New York, United States and a suburb of Rochester.
The populace of Henrietta is 42,581, as stated to the 2010 U.S.
Henrietta is home to the Rochester Institute of Technology and to one of the biggest retail shopping districts in Monroe County.
5 Communities and locations in Henrietta The first inhabitants of the Henrietta region were Native Americans.
Although no evidence of Native American villages has been found in Henrietta, various artifacts and skeletons have been unearthed by farmers and archeologists over the past 200 years. With the end of the American Revolution, a several resident Native American tribes that had sided with the British were forced to leave Upstate New York.
The town of Henrietta was titled after Henrietta Laura Pulteney, Countess of Bath in Great Britain. Her father Sir William Pulteney, 5th Baronet, was a primary British shareholder from the Pulteney Association who owned the territory that became the town.
Henrietta Pulteney never visited the town titled after her.
Two villages, East and West Henrietta, arose in the area, both part of the Town of Pittsford.
With the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, Henrietta farmers attained access to the New York City market for their crops and the town prospered.
In 1826, inhabitants opened the Monroe Academy, the first incorporated school in Monroe County.
The populace of Henrietta went from 3,000 to approximately 14,000 in ten years as citizens started moving to the Rochester suburbs.
The building of the New York Thruway through Henrietta in the early 1950s made the town more desirable for commercial development.
In 1968, the Rochester Institute of Technology moved from the town/city to a new ground in Henrietta.
That same year, the National Technical Institute for the Deaf opened in Henrietta.
In the 1980s, with the culmination of Interstate 390 and the building of Marketplace Mall, Henrietta advanced into one of the primary retail shopping destinations in Monroe County.
The town line of Henrietta is defined by the Genesee River.
To the north of Henrietta is the town of Brighton, to the east are the suburbs of Pittsford and Mendon, New York, and to the south is the town of Rush.
Henrietta is south of the City of Rochester, but does not share a border with the city.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 35.6 square miles (92 km2), of which, 35.4 square miles (92 km2) of it is territory and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km2) of it (0.53%) is water.
Both the New York Thruway (Interstate 90) and Interstate 390 run through Henrietta.
Henrietta town hall Henrietta's town government consists of a town supervisor (Jack Moore in 2015), and four town board members.
All town board meetings begin at 7:00 PM EST at the Henrietta Town Hall.
Other boards and commissions in Henrietta include the Zoning Board, Planning Board, Conservation Board, Youth Board, Recreation Commission, Historic Site Committee, Assessment Board, and Library Board.
As of the census of 2000, there were 39,028 citizens , 12,823 homeholds, and 8,501 families residing in the town.
The ethnic makeup of the town was 84.3% White, 6.9% African American, 0.27% Native American, 5.5% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 0.97% from other competitions, and 17.3% from two or more competitions.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 20.4% under the age of 18, 23.9% from 18 to 24, 26.8% from 25 to 44, 19.6% from 45 to 64, and 9.3% who were 65 years of age or older.
As of the 2005-2009 American Community Survey, the ethnic makeup of the town was 81.5% White, 7.9% African American, 0.27% Native American, 5.9% Asian, and 3.1% Hispanic or Latino and 1.4% other.
The East Henrietta hamlet is positioned at the crossroads of East Henrietta (US Route 15 - A) and Lehigh Station Roads (County Route 253).
It was the site of the Monroe Academy, the first secondary school in the county, which later became Rush-Henrietta Senior High School.
The West Henrietta hamlet is positioned at the crossroads of West Henrietta (Route 15) and Erie Station Roads.
It is the site of the West Henrietta Baptist Church, assembled in 1838.
The West Henrietta Post Office and the West Henrietta Fire Department building is next to the church.
Henrietta is one of the primary retail centers for Monroe County and is also home to many corporate company parks.
The following businesses are positioned in Henrietta: United States Postal Service: Western New York sorting center on Jefferson Road Locust Hill Country Club - a private golf course in Henrietta and Pittsford National Park Service (2010-07-09).
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Henrietta (New York).
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