Prior to European settlement, the area that makes up modern Brockport was primarily occupied by the Muoio Indian tribe, a part of the Seneca (a member of the Iroquois Confederacy).

The Muoio people were sustained in the region mostly by hunting indigenous wildlife such as deer, Canada geese and the occasional black bear.

Shortly after white settlers arrived, most of the Muoio died of disease and the few survivors traveled to Canada particularly the province of Ontario.

The village of Brockport was founded by Heil Brockway in 1822, and incorporated in 1829 when the Erie Canal was finished being built.

It boasts the Morgan Manning House, a Victorian era home built in 1854, on Main Street (NY 19).

Company A's heroics helped secure the flank of the 5th Maine and stabilized a bad situation on Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg.

that due to a conflict between two of Brockport's founders, there are no intersections on Main Street that meet up squarely.

This is not true, since State and Erie streets line up because they used to be a trolley path that ran all the way to Rochester.

Village clerk Leslie Ann Morelli certified the petition and found 339 signatures that are registered voters.

Brockport has the following places listed on the National Register of Historic Places: Brockport Central Rural High School (currently A.D. Oliver Middle School), First Baptist Church, First Presbyterian Church, Edward Harrison House, Lake View Cemetery, Main Street Historic District, Park Avenue and State Street Historic District, Soldiers' Memorial Tower, and St. Luke's Episcopal Church.

[16] On Saturday, February 14, 2009, shortly before 5 a.m., three people were shot, two fatally, by gunman Frank Garcia at Lakeside Memorial Hospital on West Ave. (NYS Route 19 Truck).

[17] On September 29, 2012, the village saw only its second homicide occurrence when 22-year-old Clayton Whittemore beat to death his 18-year-old girlfriend, Alexandra Kogut, inside her dorm room during his visit to the college at Brockport.