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Working on Higley’s Floating Islands on the Raquette River near Colton

Niagara Mohawk Power Company workers on Higley’s Floating Islands (which were really cranberry bog masses clogging up the dam) in the main channel at Higley Flow, between Colton and South Colton, NY. 1943.

Full story on the floating islands here.

 

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