North Country At Work

9 teams of horses pulling a Dynamo Electric Machine, or generator, to a site near Eagle Rock in Nicholville. 1906. Nicholville, NY.

Early construction workers filling a horse drawn wagon drop wagon with crushed stone. A steam engine powers the stone crusher via a flat belt to make road fill. Features a Case Steam Roller, which the town of Hermon bought for road building. Circa 1910s. Hermon, NY.

Pictured are two loggers, each driving a bob sled loaded with logs and drawn by a two-horse team. Circa 1910. Hermon, NY.

Nine men holding tools stand on a wooden trestle bridge across Tanner Creek near Stellaville, a hamlet of De Kalb. The bridge was part of the Adirondack and St. Lawrence Railroad. Four women and a man sitting in a horse-drawn wagon are on the ground next to the bridge. The bridge is under construction, and […]

The Star Lake Inn coach service, a surrey wagon pulled by team of horses, drives along a dirt road, filled with at least nine passengers. Circa 1900. Star Lake, NY.

A crowd of people and a horse drawn wagon pose in front of the Fine post office, which was built in 1888 and had three floors. Circa 1890-1900. Fine, NY. Check out this North Country at Work story on early mail delivery in the Adirondacks.

The Redwood Peddler makes a transaction with Mrs. Henry Schmerhorn at her home on the Calaboga Road. Her son Paul stands behind the wagon. Peddlers like this one traveled from home to home, farm to farm at a time when travel to town was sometime difficult for those who lived on the countryside. Circa 1900. Hammond, NY. […]

Outside Claude Colton’s sawmill on the Little River. A man stands on a load of lumber drawn by a team of horses. Two men hold a board ready to add it to a pile of stickered lumber. The village of Oswegatchie is in the background. Circa 1915. Oswegatchie, NY.

Survey party on sled pulled by horses. Circa 1900- 1910. Fine, NY.

Men in a lumber camp with load of large logs drawn by a team of horses. Circa 1910. Fine, NY.