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Rochester is a borough in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States. Located northwest of Pittsburgh, it is part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. The population was 3,657 at the 2010 census. Like many places in and around Pittsburgh and especially Beaver County, Rochester has been used for scenes in movies. Scenes in the 1986 movie ''Gung Ho'' (starring Pittsburgh native Michael Keaton), the 1996 movie ''Kingpin'' (starring Woody Harrelson, Randy Quaid, and Bill Murray), and the 2000 movie "Wonder Boys" (starring Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, and Robert Downey Jr.) were shot in Rochester. ==History== What would eventually become Rochester was originally a Lenape village called Sawcunk before being settled in 1799 in what was then the American frontier by white settlers. During this time, what would eventually became Rochester was known as East Bridgewater, Fairport, and Beaver Point. The borough adopted its current name in 1834 when a local businessman who did regular business in Pittsburgh decided to christen his home with the name Rochester so he could have a unique name to stamp his goods; the borough would officially be incorporated as such in 1849.〔(The Hub: Rochester’s formative days were once part of East Bridgewater ) ''The Beaver County Times'' (07/14/2015)〕 Many of the streets that run through Rochester today had different names based on wild animals. Virginia Avenue and Adams Street--two of the cities main thoroughfares via Pennsylvania Route 68--were once known as Fox Lane and Tiger Lane, respectively. Deer Lane, which still exists today, is the last remnant of the original naming scheme for the street grid in the borough.〔 Rochester is where Henry Clay Fry and his associates formed a glass manufacturing company following Fry's return from the American Civil War. In 1897 the Rochester Tumbler Company (as the company was known) became the National Glass Company of Rochester.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= HC Fry Glass Co. )〕 The company helped to revolution glass production by investing a new method for cutting glass by pressing it into a mold where previously the technique of cut glass had only been to blow it by hand.〔Kane, p. 211 ''The glass was pressed into a mold, the marks of the iron plunger remaining on the inside of the glass. Previously, cut glass had been blown by hand.''〕 At its height, the National Glass Company of Rochester employed over a 1000 people but its bankruptcy during the Great Depression began a long decline in the town's population which continues up to today. Rochester was a railroad junction for the Pennsylvania Railroad and sat along the railroad's mainline from the Eastern United States to Chicago. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rochester, Pennsylvania」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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