Old Edgemere Drive homes devastated by heavy April showers leading to extensive flooding and huge, rolling waves along Lake Ontario, April 1993. Greece Town Supervisor Roger Boily declared a local state of emergency to combat shore erosion and pond flooding.

Flooding along Edgemere Drive, 1952. Water levels were thirty inches above normal. Property owners along the shore blamed the use of Gut Dam, a Canadian installation in the St. Lawrence River, to control the water levels.

The marketing map promoting the Dewey Avenue Tract subdivision built by Edwards Realty Company, 1923. There were over nine hundred lots available and it boasted over a thousand trees. Eight hundred and fifty six of the lots were available for one dollar a week, no interest and no property taxes for the first two years.

Rolling waves flooding houses on the 2200 block of Edgemere Drive along the shores of Lake Ontario, March 1993. Ten foot waves and thirty mile an hour winds pushed icy water over the properties, causing extensive damage.

A Greece work crew repairs a break wall following extensive Lake Ontario flooding, 1952. Water levels were thirty inches above normal. Property owners along the shore blamed the use of Gut Dam, a Canadian installation in the St. Lawrence River, to control the water levels.

Vacationers enjoying the Lake Ontario beach outside one of the many vacation resorts that lined the shores from the 1870's until the 1930's.

The Odenbach Shipbuilding Corporation came into existence in response to World War II shipbuilding demands. John H. Odenbach's shipyard built landing barges and shallow draft oil tankers for the American war effort, averaging an astonishing rate of delivery of about one ship every two weeks.

Pictured is the Knobles family and an employee outside the Four Mile Grocery store around 1889. The Four Mile Grocery store was located on the canal at Ridgeway Avenue and Weiland Road beginning shortly after the Civil War. It was one of many stores that conducted business along the canal and was considered a "hard cider stop." It was called "Four Mile Grocery" because it was four miles outside the city. In 1904, thirty year old Frank Luitweiler of Greece mysteriously drowned in the canal just outside the store.

Fire fighters are pictured here in front of the 1922 Pierce Arrow pumper, celebrating their 3rd Annual Field Day. The Greece Ridge Fire Department was incorporated on August 3, 1922. The first firehouse opened in 1924 on the corner of Ridge Road and Long Pond Road.

Lake Ontario flooding on Edgemere Drive, May 2019.

Members of the New York National Guard walking along Cranberry Drive assisting with Lake Ontario flooding, 2019.

Vacationers standing on the trestle near the Lakeview Hotel, 1921.

Aerial view of Island Cottage and Flynn Roads, looking north. 1970's

Aerial view of Greece Athena High School looking east, 1970's. Long Pond Road is in the foreground. The site was chosen in 1961 and the school opened in 1969. Don Haefele was the first principal.

Woolworth's and W.T. Grant Co. stores in Ridgemont Plaza, 1966. Ridgemont Plaza was constructed in the late 1950's at a cost of $2 million. In 1960, the plaza was anchored by Wegmans Super Market, Woolworth's, Key Drugs and others.