Tim Judd, a former history teacher and the Irondequoit town historian, said his work often feels like a “treasure hunt.”
“It’s like discoveries all the time,” Judd said as he flipped through old photographs in his office in the basement of Town Hall.
One of his recent finds was a collection of images of White City.
Built in the late 1800s, White City was a resort where renters could escape the city of Rochester and spend their summers in white canvas tents on the breezy shores of Lake Ontario. Over time, some of those temporary structures were winterized into year-round homes…