“Teams of horses were employed to construct the canal at our first mill in Deferiet, New York. The canal was used to channel water to the plant from the Black River. Construction on the giant project was completed in 1901.” Circa 1900. Deferiet, NY. Originally printed in the St. Regis News Volume 2, Number 9 […]
The catch seems to be mostly muskies (muskellunge). Unknown fisherman, circa 1960s. Thousand Islands region in NYS. Related article, here.
15th Field Artillery troops at Pine Camp during tent inspection, during World War I. Summer of 1918. Fort Drum area. Note: Pine Plains/Pine Camp started in 1908, became Camp Drum in 1951, and Fort Drum in 1974. At all stages it was used for winter training of military personnel, and became home to the 10th […]
This McCormick combine both harvests and threshes oats. Circa 1970-1980. Precise location unknown but somewhere in Jefferson County. Photo taken by Watertown Daily Times staff photographer.
This woman is bagging oats being fed into bags from steam-powered threshing machine (view complete operation in related photos). Circa 1940-1950. Photo from Watertown Daily Times staff photographer.
This steam powered threshing machine, with an engine that burned soft coal, was used to thresh oats (separate grain from chaff). This one is being operated by a man and woman: woman is near John Deere tractor filling bags with processed oats; man is feeding bundles of oats into the thresher. Circa 1940-1950. Watertown, NY […]
Carleton Villa, also known as Wyckoff Villa, on Carleton Island in the Thousand Islands. This photo was taken by Alice Peebles Dungey. Her uncle, Clair Smith pictured here with a young calf, was a graduate of Cornell and was the manager of the Carleton Villa farm. Photo donated by Gordon S. Dungey, Alice’s son. 1914.
Plattsburgh military training camp. Unidentified soldiers pose with cannon. Summer 1918. Donated by the Sheldon family. Plattsburgh, NY.
The old schools: on the left, Grade School, built in 1868; the High School was built in 1906. Photo circa 1915. Dexter, NY.
Beth Nutting is pictured with students during her last year of teaching, June 2006. Dexter, NY. Related article here; the audio clip is from that story and features Beth Nutting talking about her time as a teacher.
