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Men inside J&J Rogers Company wood room in Au Sable Forks

Men inside wood room

Workers inside the wood room at the J&J Rogers Company’s pulp mill. From left to right: Frank Ashley, Alex Aubin, William Hopkins, and wood room foreman John Miller. Circa 1894. Au Sable Forks, NY. Photo by Charles Derby. Courtesy of Elsa Voelcker.

Click here to read or listen to our three-part story on the rise and fall of the J&J Rogers Company, one of the biggest industrial users of the Adirondack landscape.

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