Kodak Park Rochester
1891 - Partly operational
Overview
George Eastmans film works grew into one of the largest chemical plants in the world, its own streets, rail, and power, coating film in rooms the size of fields. At peak it employed over 20,000 people. The renamed Eastman Business Park now hosts dozens of tenants.
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