Silas Wright’s celebrated chrome beam fire engine. The white horses were called Billy and Tom, and they were the property of Ansil Watson, the driver for the Village street department. Dick Fobare holds the reins and Charles Cook, chief engineer, sits beside him. George Maine, who soaked the boiler, is standing. Circa 1905. Canton, NY.
R.E. Cleveland Cold Storage facility on West Street, with refrigerated wooden box cars from Merchants Dispatch Transportation Company. Circa 1910. Canton, NY.
A two horse treadmill powering a thresher on the Southworth Farm. The thresher separated the grain from the chaff (stalks/stems). Circa 1920. Canton, NY.
The St. Lawrence Plaindealer office and J.M. McIntosh store on Main Street, after a snowstorm. Canton, NY. Circa 1900.
Saw mill worker with mill horses in Natural Bridge, NY. 1920’s.
Lime quarry in Natural Bridge, NY. Date unknown.
National Hotel taxi outside the hotel. Elmer Bradway was the owner of the hotel when this photo was taken in 1899. Carthage, NY.
D.J. Tiffany’s grocery at 78 North Mechanic Street. He sold milk, cream, and groceries, and made deliveries in the pictured three horse-drawn wagons. 1913. Carthage, NY. Photo courtesy of S.H. Greene, Chaumont, NY. From a booklet written by Dudley Danielson called “Carthage, NY – 1785-1980.”
Chester Bovee and his father bringing in a load of loose hay on the Bovee family farm in 1920. Somewhere in Jefferson County in NYS. From an article written by Gladys’s sister, Evelyn Constance Bovee in the Watertown Daily Times, published on November 17, 1982. Related article on dairy farming here.
Big Mike and Jerry (horses’ names) ready to haul logs, 1918, Colton, NY. Teamster unknown. Related story on logging in Colton here.
