North Country At Work

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

Three quarry workers lifting large pieces of Potsdam Sandstone by crane. 1956. Hannawa Falls.

Ore being drawn from the mine to the railroad. Driving the first team of horses is Claude Hance. Story attached to photo at the SLCHA Archives: Robert McFerran brought the horses a chocolate each morning on the first trip down and the horses would stop and refuse to go past the store until they had […]

A steam drill on track, winch (bottom left), and a crane boom for lifting rocks in the Canton Marble Quarries. Two groups of workers are visible in center foreground. Circa 1890s. Canton, NY. Photo by Dwight Seog.

Prospecting for serpentine marble on the Nickerson Farm using a steam drill. Worker is hand-cranking hoist to pick up rocks. Four other workers maneuver the rig in the small exploration pit. Circa 1890s. Canton, NY.

Caption on photo: Photograph taken in the New York lime quarry shortly after the cave discovery in the fall of 1906. Note the pocket that contained the calcite crystals, located on the left side of the photograph, approximately midway between the quarry floor and the top of the quarry face. Photograph courtesy of the New […]

Shot inside a lime quarry in Lewisburg, operated by the New York Lime Company. Cables  on the ground were used to pull loads of lime collected from blasted limestone. Above the quarry a cable ore gondola was used to lift the lime out of the pit. Between 1906 and 1920. Lewisburg, NY.

Exterior shot of the Lime Quarry and Mill in Lewisburg, operated by the New York Lime Company. Note ladders into quarry. Between 1906 and 1920. Lewisburg in Natural Bridge in NY.

Worker operating machinery in the quarries of the Cabot Wollastonite White Pigments Division plant, owned by the Cabot Carbon Company, picturing smokestacks during winter. Willsboro, New York. Circa 1940s. Photographer is Bernie A. Degnan, Glens Falls.

In the quarries of the Cabot Wollastonite White Pigments Division plant, owned by the Cabot Carbon Company, picturing smokestacks during winter. Willsboro, New York. Circa 1940s. Photographer is Bernie A. Degnan, Glens Falls.