Henrietta is a town in Monroe County, New York, United States and a suburb of Rochester.

Henrietta is home to the Rochester Institute of Technology and to one of the largest retail shopping districts in Monroe County.

Although no evidence of Native American villages has been found in Henrietta, numerous artifacts and skeletons have been unearthed by farmers and archeologists over the past 200 years.

[5] The first European settlers in Henrietta were Major Ezekiel Scott and his wife Catherine, who purchased 900 acres in 1790.

[5]Two villages, East and West Henrietta, arose in the area, both part of the Town of Pittsford.

In 1818, a dispute about the recording of deeds prompted residents of the two villages to secede from Pittsford and form the town of Henrietta.

[5] With the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, Henrietta farmers gained access to the New York City market for their crops and the town prospered.

After the end of World War II, the population of Henrietta rose from 3,000 to approximately 14,000 in ten years as people started moving from the City of Rochester.

The building of the New York Thruway through Henrietta in the early 1950s made the town more desirable for commercial development.

[6] In the 1980s, with the completion of Interstate 390 and the building of the Marketplace Mall, Henrietta was developed into one of the major retail shopping destinations in Monroe County.