North Country At Work

The Empire Lead mine at Pierces Corners, an area in southwestern Macomb. Circa 1909-1910. Pierce’s Corners in the town of Macomb, NY.

The Cheese Factory at Brasie Corners, a hamlet of the town Macomb. The factory was owned by Albert Hazelton. Pictured is Mr. Hazelton and his son Arnold, daughter Lois, and a hired helper, standing in front of the cheese factory and next to a large wooden water holding tank used to supply water to the […]

Ice chunks harvested from the Grasse River are moved along a wooden chute and lifted using ropes into an ice house. Circa 1900. Canton.

Moving ice blocks cut from the Grasse River up a ramp, to be deposited and stored in an ice house. Circa 1900. Canton.

Workers cutting stone in Gouverneur. Electric powered, not steam powered equipment. Circa 1930s. Gouverneur.

Ogdensburg Port featuring the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain Railroad Company Grain Elevator in background. The elevator was filled with grain and emptied by gravity into boats to export to cities elsewhere. Boat is named the Ogdensburgh & Lake Champlain R.R. Line. 1890. Ogdensburg.

Steam powered boom rig takes blocks out of marble quarry. 1890-1900. Gouverneur, NY.

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

Seven men stand atop a crib dam under construction on the St. Regis River in Nicholville; the wooden cribs are built, but have not yet been filled with stones. Among the men are Sam Chambers and his sons Raoul and Edwin. Circa 1900. Nicholville, a hamlet of Lawrence, NY.

Frank Squire, a 4th generation farmer, cutting hay on the same farm his great grandfather, Aschbel Squire, cleared in 1803. This job used to be done with a scythe. In this picture he’s using a John Deere # 5 sidebar mower and John Deere tractor. Squire Farm is one mile west of Hopkinton on Hopkinton-Potsdam […]