Editing Henrietta, New York (section)

==History==
[[File:James Tinker House — Henrietta, Monroe County, New York.jpg|thumb|301x301px|Tinker Cobblestone Homestead (2022)]]
The first residents of the Henrietta area were [[indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native Americans]]. Although no evidence of Native American villages has been found in Henrietta, numerous artifacts and skeletons have been unearthed by farmers and [[archeologist]]s over the past 200 years.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kalbeck|first=Eleanor C|title=Henrietta Heritage|year=1977|pages=11–13}}</ref> With the end of the [[American Revolution]], several resident tribes that had sided with the British were forced to leave [[Upstate New York]]. As a result, land became available for European settlers in the [[Finger Lakes]] and [[Genesee Valley]] regions.

The town of Henrietta was named after [[Laura Pulteney, 1st Countess of Bath|Henrietta Laura Pulteney, Countess of Bath]] in Great Britain.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9V1IAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA155 | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=155}}</ref> Her father [[Sir William Pulteney, 5th Baronet]], a major British investor from [[the Pulteney Association]], owned the land that became the town. Henrietta Pulteney never visited the town. Pulteney eventually sold his holdings, which then passed through the hands of several American investors.<ref name="Elam book" />

The first European settlers in Henrietta were Major Ezekiel Scott and his wife Catherine, who purchased {{convert|900|acre}} in 1790. Most of the original arriving settlers were English.<ref name="Elam book" /> Two villages, East and West Henrietta, arose in the area, both part of the town of [[Pittsford, New York|Pittsford]]. In 1818, a dispute about the recording of deeds prompted residents of the two villages to secede from Pittsford and form the town of Henrietta.<ref name="Elam book">{{cite book|last=Elam|first=Helen Vollmer|title=Images of America: Henrietta|year=2006|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=978-0-7385-4937-8|page=7}}</ref>

With the opening of the [[Erie Canal]] in 1825, Henrietta farmers gained access to the New York City market for their crops and the town prospered. In 1826, the [[Monroe Academy]] opened in Henrietta, becoming the first incorporated school in Monroe County.

After the end of [[World War II]], the population of Henrietta rose from 3,000 to approximately 14,000 in ten years as suburban development grew around the city of Rochester. The building of the [[New York State Thruway]] through Henrietta in the early 1950s made the town more desirable for commercial development. In 1968, the [[Rochester Institute of Technology]] moved from Rochester to a new campus in Henrietta. That same year, the [[National Technical Institute for the Deaf]] opened in Henrietta.<ref>{{Cite web |title=History of RIT |url=https://www.rit.edu/history-rit |access-date=March 5, 2024 |website=RIT |language=en}}</ref>

In the 1980s, with the completion of [[Interstate 390]] and the building of [[the Marketplace Mall]], Henrietta was developed into one of the major retail shopping destinations in Monroe County.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About Marketplace Mall |url=https://www.themarketplacemall.com/about/ |access-date=March 5, 2024 |website=The Marketplace Mall |language=en-US}}</ref>

Henrietta has the following listings on the [[National Register of Historic Places]]:
* [[Andrew Short House]]
* [[Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell Childhood Home]]
* [[Tinker Cobblestone Farmstead]].<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref><ref name="nps">{{cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/listings/20140221.htm|title=National Register of Historic Places Listings|date=February 21, 2014|work=Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 2/10/14 through 2/14/14 |publisher=National Park Service}}</ref>