Industry
The natural water power of Old Buttermilk Falls determined the village site and led in 1803 to the erection of Stoddard and Platt's pioneer grist mill. In 1822 Herman Le Roy, for whom the town was named, replaced it with a much larger mill whose Genesee Flour won a medal at the London Crystal Palace Exhibition in 1851. The low earthen dike that formed Herman Le Roy's mill pond fixed the location of the Great Niagara Road, the village business district, and four successive Main Street bridges: wood in 1802, stone in 1823, iron in 1855, and concrete in 1908.
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Le Roy, New York · United States
