Penfield Videos

These PENFIELD VIDEOS compliment the THREE-PART HISTORY SERIES.

Oakwood Cemetery Early Settlers Tour - takes you from John Strowger to Alanson Higbie to Andrew Lincoln to John Fellows to Daniel Penfield to Samuel Rich to George Parmenter and finally John Hipp. 3 minutes.
Oakwood Cemetery East Penfield Tour - Get more familiar with the namesake of Jackson Road, Harris Whalen Park and Whalen Road. Only 2 1/2 minutes.
Indian Landing and Fort Schuyler Tour - So much history at our Ellison Park. Walk on this 4 minute tour and find yourself in adventure and romance.
BONUS Videos - to appreciate the beauty of Penfield NY.

Be sure to visit PART ONE, PART TWO and PART THREE of the history series. I hope you enjoy this collection of Penfield History.

Penfield History, three part series. Neeraj Shah is a CPA and an attorney.

Videos

Videos, Penfield History Series

Oakwood Cemetery Early Settlers Tour - Walking around Oakwood Cemetery in Penfield NY at sunrise is such a wonderful experience. Getting lost locating a family lot and stumbling on another. Glance around and you will see familiar names that we once only identified with roads, parks and schools. It is hard not to research more about the families and ponder what life was like back then. More than two hundred years ago sometimes, how was our town of Penfield mapped out? Why did they come here in the first place? What was life like? All questions that we want answered to give more meaning in our lives today. Walk with me as I take you around Penfield’s earliest settlers in 3 minutes! We start from John Strowger to Alanson Higbie to Andrew Lincoln to John Fellows to Daniel Penfield to Samuel Rich to George Parmenter to John Hipp. Enjoy the sights and sounds. VOLUME UP!

Indian Landing and Fort Schuyler Tour - Take 4 minute walk with me through beautiful Ellison Park in Penfield. I will take you back in time, maybe 300 years ago, when indigenous Iroquois used this Indian Landing to keep and launch their canoes onto Irondequoit Creek. As we leave the Landing and walk over the bridge and through the woods, we come upon the presumed site of Peter (Pieter) Schuyler’s 1721 Trading Post, known as “Fort Schuyler.” Its purpose was to encourage trade with the Senecas and complete with the French for furs. A replica log cabin was built in 1938 to commemorate the site. Enjoy. Oh, and volume up!

Acknowledgments

We are truly very lucky to live in a Town that is so supportive of Penfield's rich history. Not all towns have devoted resources towards a Local History Room, which is really an extension of the Town Historian's Office. The Penfield Local History Room aims to organizing materials, constructing historical displays, researching various topics, helping patrons, and coordinating volunteers. It is located in the Penfield Public Library - all the way in the back. I encourage you to visit next time you visit our library.

I want to especially thank Mrs. Kathy Kanauer, Penfield Town Historian, and Ms. Anna Jarvis, our Local History Room Coordinator. They have a wealth of knowledge and it has been a privilege to chat and learn from both. They are great people themselves. Thank you so much Kathy and Anna.

Three books that I would like to acknowledge are listed below. I want to thank Martin for his time. I text him a lot and talk to him often about Penfield history. I have to be careful, though - because often our conversations lead down various rabbit holes!

Penfield's Past, Katherine Wilcox Thompson Town Historian, Town of Penfield. 1960, 1976, 1990. Christopher Press.
Images of America: Penfield, Martin M. Wamp. 2004. Arcadia Publishing.
Special Places: A History of Irondequoit and Allens Creek Valleys, William N. Hosley. 1993. Water View Publishing.

Penfield Videos

Oakwood Cemetery Early Settlers Tour

Oakwood Cemetery East Penfield Tour

Indian Landing and Fort Schuyler Tour

Fort Schuyler Tour (winter)

Indian Landing Tour (winter)

Martin M. Wamp - author

Katherine Thompson - former town historian

Acknowledgments

Neeraj Shah, Esq., MBA, CPA