An early “turkey day” in Heuvelton—the largest and usually best market for local turkey farmers. Farmers waiting with their turkeys–for appraisal and purchase–in a line towards the railroad station. A car load of knocked down boxes would arrive to be distributed to the different buyers. These boxes were large enough to hold eighteen medium sized […]
Paul Woods assisting customers in the IGA grocery, which was located in the downstairs of Pickens Hall. From the Ogdensburg Journal’s Leisure Time Advance News insert February 22, 1973. Heuvelton, NY.
Baker Rollande Henry, nickname “Sarge,” piping frosting onto a cake. By 1978 she had been making cakes for 25 years. Rollande moved to the US from Hull in Quebec in 1928. From the Ogdensburg Journal’s Leisure Time Advance News insert from July 1978. Heuvelton, NY.
Ron Kiah, packaging supervisor, cuts blocks of cheese into consumer-sized blocks for packaging and shipping to McCadam Cheese Company’s national markets. Inside the McCadam Cheese Company processing plant in Chateaugay, NY. Circa 1980. Originally printed in a 1984 Ogdensburg Journal. Click here to check out our story on how cheese helped build Heuvelton.
Blocks of cheese aging. Blair Davis and Lionel Davis observe the process at the McCadam Cheese Company plant in Chateaugay, circa 1970. Chateaugay, NY. Originally printed in the Ogdensburg Journal.
Cheese being poured into 40 pound blocks at the McCadam Cheese Company plant in Chateaugay, circa 1970. Chateaugay, NY. Originally printed in the Ogdensburg Journal.
Stanley K. McCadam observes muenster cheese being prepared at the Chateaugay McCadam cheese plant, circa 1970. Chateaugay, NY. Originally printed in the Ogdensburg Journal.
Lionel Davis Jr. and Ron Davis in the McCadam Cheese Company processing plant in Chateaugay, NY. Circa 1970. Originally printed in the Ogdensburg Journal.
Grocery section of Ducett’s Store in the 1930s, with Fred and Hattie Ducett and son Orman. Another son, Earl, was also associated with the store, which operated until the 1960s in the Pickens Hall building. Circa 1930s. Heuvelton, NY.
Unidentified men in front of Lynn Rogers Meat Market in downtown Canton. Circa 1880. Canton, NY.
