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- The town of Brighton, NY was established in 1814. It is situated in the County of Monroe, abutting Lake Ontario in upstate New York. It was shaped by the Wisconsin Glacier until 8,000 BC and is now divided by the Genesee River. Brighton, a suburb of Rochester, was a Seneca Indian hunting ground before becoming an Erie Canal Village in 1823.
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Brighton's growth continued throughout the twentieth century, the new pioneers migrating from the city along the West Henrietta Road, Monroe Avenue and East Avenue corridors. Brighton enjoyed its reputation as the premier suburb in Monroe County.
English colonists built permanent structures in approximately 1790, and formally established the town in 1814—earning it recognition as one of the oldest towns in Monroe County.
We have covered the Seneca Indians, our neighborhoods and sites, local cultural and religious institutions, historic personages, architectural history, historic preservation and many other subjects. Our archive of journals on Brighton history is here.
Brighton, a suburb of Rochester, was a Seneca Indian hunting ground before becoming an Erie Canal Village in 1823. With a robust nursery & farming community, Brighton became the brick industry capital of upstate New York in the 1800’s.
The modern Brighton, one of America's most beautiful suburban residential communities, has blossomed in the past 50 years from a small, semi-rural town with scattered farms and a few large suburban homes, into a diversified, complex community with 30,000 residents. The history of this community stretches back more than 300 years, and in
The town of Brighton was organized March 25, 1814, by a division of the town of Smallwood in two parts, Brighton and Pittsford. Part of Rochester was taken off in 1834, and Irondequoit in 1835.
83001710 [1] Added to NRHP. July 21, 1983. Stone–Tolan House is a historic home located at Brighton in Monroe County, New York. The 2-story frame house has a 1-story frame wing that is believed to have been built in 1792. It is a vernacular Federal -style structure and served as a frontier tavern, public meeting place, and pioneer homestead.
