North Country At Work

Team of horses drawing manure spreader. Circa 1920s-30s. Philadelphia, NY area.

The Grove Hotel (originally known as the Pickens House) with hotel employees standing out front, from the left: unknown man, Clint Woodside, Floyd McCadam, Joe Dawson, Mr. Newcomb, Stephen Trainor. This is where the Abbott Sisters, the renowned opera singers, lived. Circa 1900. Heuvelton, NY.  

View of Heuvelton’s State Street, which includes a carriage maker’s shop and the town’s covered bridge, built in the early 1860s. Circa late 1860s. Heuvelton, NY.

View of State Street covered in snow on April 21, 1904. Heuvelton, NY.

Employees of the Ogdensburg City Water department pile sandbags along the Oswegatchie River to keep water from runoff flowing into city pump station, located at side of the dam. Circa 1950. Ogdensburg, NY. Originally in the Ogdensburg Advance Journal.

A  brick schoolhouse in the village of Canton. Pictured are a teacher with twelve male students. Circa 1900. Canton, NY.

Sixteen (unidentified) men try to break up a log jam. These logs were headed down river during the spring drive to the Canton Lumber Company Mill at the foot of the gorge at High Falls in Pyrites. Circa 1890. Pyrites, NY. Related logging story (in Colton) here.

Firemen in Carthage fighting Strand Building fire, March 1945. Carthage, NY. Related article on North Country volunteer firefighters here.

Employees of a shoe last factory in Natural Bridge. Note the lasts in the picture with the men – these shoe lasts were wooden forms used by shoemakers to construct shoes. Men identified in the photo are Frank Cross (first row, third from the left), George Dooley (first row, far right), and Leon Weatherhead (second […]

Higley Falls log jam on Raquette River, circa 1900, Colton, NY. Related article on logging here.