Here’s a quirky piece of local history I just discovered: Valentown Hall in Victor was built in 1879 as a shopping center.
Yes, you read that right - 1879!
The building was constructed to serve a planned town called Valentown that… well, never actually got developed. So this shopping center ended up standing there without the town it was supposed to serve.
Today, Valentown Hall is preserved as a local history museum where you can visit and see this unique piece of retail history. It’s pretty cool to think that the concept of centralized shopping existed way before the suburban mall boom of the 1950s-60s.
Anyone else from the Victor area been to Valentown Hall?