North Country At Work

Diana Paper Mill in Harrisville, which became St. Regis Paper Company. Taken by Austin. Circa 1890s. Photo donated by Jim LaParr.

Men load logs onto flatbed train cars using a coal-fired Barnhart steam loader mounted on a flatcar. Logs in the foreground, Red Onion Boarding House and horse barn in the background. 1900- 1920. Newton Falls, NY.

Construction of new Imperial Paper Co. mill on Main Mill Street in Plattsburgh. 1929. Plattsburgh, NY. Clinton County Historical Association. Brewer Collection.

Construction of new mill at Imperial Paper Co. on Main Mill Street in Plattsburgh. 1929. Plattsburgh, NY. Clinton County Historical Association. Brewer Collection.

Workers inside the J & J Rogers Co. pulp mill. Circa 1930-1940. Au Sable Forks, NY. Clinton County Historical Association. Brewer Collection.

Imperial Paper Company of Plattsburgh paper making equipment. The mill operated from 1929 to 1996. Circa 1930-1940. Plattsburgh, NY. Clinton County Historical Association. Brewer Collection.

Pictured is Plattsburgh Concrete Company before the paper mill was built. Date unknown but the company operated from this location from 1906 until 1910. Weed Street in Plattsburgh, NY. Clinton County Historical Association. Brewer Collection.

Two employees operating paper roll machinery inside the Newton Falls Paper Mill. Circa 1940s or 1950s. Newton Falls. Photo courtesy of the Town of Clifton Museum, from the Ernie Bognar Collection, as furnished through the courtesy of Randy Clark. Wayne Morrow started working at the Newton Falls paper Company in 1936 and retired in 1978. […]

Interior of the DeGrasse River Paper Company, pictured are paper machines. Photo by Henry M. Beach. 1910. Pyrites, NY. Photo courtesy of the Canton Historian’s Office. Check out our story on the boom (and bust) of Pyrites here.