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The six-county Greater Rochester region is the No. 3 metro area in New York, and Rochester is the nation's No. 79 city in terms of population. According to the 2000 census, Rochester had 208,123 residents and there were 735,343 people living in Monroe County, the gateway to the scenic Finger Lakes
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wine country.
Greater Rochester's scenic landscape has its roots in Cenozoic era glaciers that carved out the Genesee Valley, created rolling hills an etched the Great Lakes, the Genesee River and the Finger Lakes.
Rochester was once known as the
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"Flour City" for its processing mills alongside the Genesee and then as the "Flower City" in large part due to the Ellwanger and Barry Nursery founded in 1940.
It later became known
across the globe for innovation in the fields of photography (Eastman Kodak Co.),
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xerography (Xerox) and optics (Bausch & Lomb), and the economy is now driven in no small part by two major research institutions (University of Rochester and Rochester Institute of Technology) which form the foundation of an extraordinary network of higher learning institutions.
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