Dutchtown (Rochester, New York)

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The name derived from its founding population of German immigrants, who called the area "Deutschtown" (Germantown). These settlers migrated from Frankfort, Rochester’s earliest settlement along the Genesee River, to streets farther west. They worked the mills in Brown’s Race near High Falls and by the 1840s had built the “Deutschtown”/Dutchtown Neighborhood.

While the majority of the neighborhood housing was made up of small tidy, cottage-sized dwellings, more prosperous residents built two-story houses and even a large mansion or two. These residents were mostly working-class, employed largely in the city's milling industries.

The neighborhood has more recently been linked with neighboring J.O.S.A.N.A.