North Country At Work

Allen and Malcolm McGregor hauling a load of loose hay with a team of horses on the McGregor farm. 1948. Hammond, NY. Photo donated by Jennifer McGregor.

Roberta and Malcolm McGregor gathering sap in milk cans on the McGregor farm. Pictured are: a Studebaker automobile and a horse drawn wagon filled with station cans used to collect sap from individual buckets. Steam is rising in the background from the sugaring arch. March 1947. Hammond, NY. Photo donated by Jennifer McGregor.

A steam train hauling ore. In the background are workhorses and cows and a steam shovel. Photo by Henry M. Beach. 1910. Hamilton County. Photo courtesy of the Adirondack Experience: the Museum on Blue Mountain Lake. For more on Henry M. Beach’s life and photography, check out our North Country at Work story on him.

Horse and buggy outside Horace N. Clark’s funeral home. Circa 1900-1910. Potsdam, NY.

Blacksmith outside his shop with his horse and wagon.  Blacksmith is holding a hammer

Students clearing what would later become Snell Field. Tractor was loaned by a nearby farmer and driven by Stub Baker, class of 1927. 1923. Potsdam, NY.

General field work at the Clarkson Estate, where Snell Athletic Field is today. Fall 1924. Potsdam, NY.

Sam Goldberg and Bill Cornell with the Cornell & Son ice delivery wagon on Willow St. Cornell holds a block of ice with ice tongs. Circa 1920. Potsdam, NY.

Workers transport Benson’s Leghorn Chickens in wooden crates aboard a wagon. Fred C. Benson was the proprietor of Central Meat and Grocery Market at 33 Market Street. Potsdam’s depot is to the right of the wagon. Circa 1920. Potsdam, NY.

Ed LaVine of Potsdam drove this rig that carried “the largest load of pulp wood ever drawn out of the woods by a single team of horses.” The 12-cord load of 4-foot logs was 10 feet wide, 10 feet high, and 18 feet long. The load was hauled 10 miles to the Racquette River, where […]