North Country At Work

Ausable Granite Quarry. Workers use a block and tackle and cable hoist to move a large slab of granite. Photograph by George Baldwin. Circa 1910. Keeseville, NY.

Baker Granite Quarry. Men at work breaking up and moving stone. Photograph by George Baldwin. Circa 1910. Keeseville, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

Miners in quarry with empty ore cart. Operations of the North River Garnet Company. Photograph by Ernest J. Ameden. Circa 1911. North River, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

Two men load a large chunk of stone into a truck at Dart’s Mountain Quarry. The stone used for the construction of Big Moose Chapel came from this quarry. Probably in Eagle Bay or Big Moose hamlets. 1929. Town of Webb, NY. Donated by Wildwood Enterprise, courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

Miners load gravel onto railcars with steam shovel. Caption reads “the little shovel, loading gravel, B.C. Dam, Hinckley, N.Y.” Photograph by Henry M. Beach. 1910. Hinckley, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

Miner operates an Elmco loader to fill ore car at the Republic Steel Company mine. Mineville, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

Miner operates hoist to move machinery inside a Republic Steel Company shaft. Mineville, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

Miners at work on a ledge inside a mineshaft. Republic Steel Company. Mineville, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

Miner operates pneumatic drill inside shaft. Republic Steel Company. Mineville, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

Miners loading a drift round to blast using a cap and fuse. Republic Steel Company. Mineville, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.