The plaque to the left reads as follows:
| Circa 1200 AD | Ancient peoples use this area as prime hunting and fishing ground. |
| 1450 - 1700's | The Seneca tribe serves as keeper of the western door of the Iroquois nation, crossing the area on many trails. |
| 1788 | Land speculators Phelps and Gorham purchase from the Seneca Chiefs and the State of Massachusetts all territory north of the Pennsylvania line from Seneca Lake to the Genesee River (more than two and a half million acres). |
| 1809 | Just west of the spot, Caleb Lyon pioneers the settlement that becomes the Village of Carthage, which flourishes for twenty-five years as a busy river port and mill town. |
| 1840's | Land is cleared and small farms begin to prosper along the roadway named for Heman Norton, a founder of Carthage. |
| 1880's - early 1900's | Dubbed "The Butter Hole", pastures here serve as the principle source of dairy products for Rochester and Irondequoit. |
| 1913 | Tract is annexed by the City of Rochester. |
| 1913 - 1920's | No longer cultivated, fields here sprout the big top tents of circuses that arrive here each summer. |
| 1929 | Red Wing Stadium opens for the professional International League baseball team that has played in Rochester since 1885. In the park, renamed Silver Stadium in 1968, many baseball greats play, including Babe Ruth, Luke Easter, Stan Musial, and Cal Ripken, Jr. |
| 1999 | City of Rochester dedicates this place as an industrial park, to be a site for light manufacturing use, so that once again it may support, in a new way for a new century, the life and prosperity of this community on the east bank of the Genesee River. |
