North Country At Work

Forest Home, built by Warren Humes. Building on the left is family farm house, built in 1870s, building on the right is the hotel, in operation from 1888 to 1914. Harrisville, NY. Circa 1890.

Eugene Cole house on the French Settlement Road. Pictured from left to right is an old log house, more modern farmhouse, and two barns. Family homestead where Barbara Cole was born. Now Brown Creek Club (hunting). Town of Diana, NY. Circa 1920.

Members of the Elthorp family butchering pigs at their farm in Hammond, NY. Circa 1910-1920.

Edgar Elthorp and his wife with his bee hives, circa 1890s-early 1900s. Hammond, NY

Pressing hay with Fred Rebscher’s hay press, on Calaboga Road in Hammond.Finished bale hangs on stillyard in foreground.  The hay press was an early technique for compressing loose hay into bales. Circa 1910. Hammond, NY.

Allen Wilson painting a fence, doing spring chores on the farm. Behind him are barrels on pivots. Circa 1890-1900. Hammond, NY.

Sawing firewood with a steam engine at Robert Smith farm in Pleasant Valley. Bert Smith pictured on right. Site later covered by Route 12. Circa 1900-1910. Hammond, NY.

International 10 20 steel wheeled tractor pulling a corn binder behind it at edge of corn field. Harvesting corn in late summer. Circa 1930s. Hammond, NY.

Last load of hay in 1920. Note metal-wheeled early tractor drawing hay wagon of loose hay. Hammond, NY.

Plowing the Savage farm with a walking plow on the River Road in the late 1940s. Behind the plow is John Savage; his son, Bill, is holding the horse. Photo: Michael Savage (Bill’s son). Hammond, NY.