Pictured is a young worker at a “super calendar” machine in the St. Regis Paper Company Champion Mill in Deferiet. 1950s. Deferiet, NY. Courtesy of the Jefferson County Historical Society. For more information, check out our story on what life was like in Deferiet in the mid-1900s.
Machines inside the St. Regis Paper Company mill in Deferiet. Workers can be seen sitting on the machines to the left. Early 1900s. Deferiet, NY. Courtesy of the Town of Champion Historian’s office. Check out this related story on Deferiet’s paper mill strike.
Workers pose with machines at the St. Regis Paper Company mill. Workers routinely went barefoot as safety standards were nonexistent in the 1800s and early 1900s. Poor pay and working conditions led to a 450-person strike in 1915. Circa 1910. Deferiet, NY. Courtesy of the Town of Champion Historian’s office. For more information, check out […]
Striking paper mill workers and their families in front of Camp Tylkoff, headquarters for the strikers. 450 paper mill employees went on strike with the intent to unionize. 1915. Deferiet, NY. Courtesy of the Town of Champion archives. For more information, check out our story on Deferiet’s strike.
Portrait of workers at an unidentified mill with three smokestacks in the background. Circa 1890-1910. Potsdam, NY.
Workers pose with crane for lifting pulp logs out of the river at paper mill. Located three miles north of Potsdam, the mill produced ground wood, chemical pulp, and later, specialty papers. It was one of the largest employers in Potsdam for many years. Circa 1907. Potsdam, NY.
In 1892, George Wing Sisson Sr. bought the site of the old Union Mill at Unionville, on the east side of the Racquette River, for $50,000. The old saw mill was torn down and the Racquette River Paper Company was built. A new wooden dam and flume were also constructed. Production began with three wood […]
View of St. Lawrence Pyrites Company ore-concentration mill and the top house of Stella Mine No. 1 (left center). The mine provided sulphur ore for the mill, shown uphill on the right. Tailings pond in middle. Circa 1910-1920. Stellaville, town of De Kalb, NY.
View to the north from the bedrock hill behind the St. Lawrence Pyrites Company ore-concentration mill. Engine house at left-center, road to DeKalb Junction (County Route 17) in background; company houses on road at Stellaville (right-center). Circa 1910-1920. Stellaville in the Town of De Kalb, NY.
New York Central Engine #1798 is posed with a train of ore cars ready to be unloaded into the processing mill. Circa 1910-1920. Stellaville in the Town of De Kalb, NY.
