North Country At Work

Old Central House run by Merrit Fargo. 1902. Natural Bridge, NY.

Rollin I. Skinner, chief draftsmen of the Carthage Machine Company, standing at the edge of a cylindrical chip screen which was manufactured by the company in the mid-1920s. The side of their building on West End Avenue had to be torn out to get it out for shipment. Circa 1920s. Carthage, NY. From a booklet […]

Dominic Condino’s first truck being used to haul stone from a local quarry. Dominic Condino owned Carthage Auto Supply Company. Circa 1920s. Carthage, NY. From a booklet written by Dudley Danielson called “Carthage, NY – 1785-1980.”

Chester Bovee and his father bringing in a load of loose hay on the Bovee family farm in 1920. Somewhere in Jefferson County in NYS. From an article written by Gladys’s sister, Evelyn Constance Bovee in the Watertown Daily Times, published on November 17, 1982. Related article on dairy farming here.

Building the new bridge on Depot Road. Circa 1900. Natural Bridge, NY. Donated by J. Wicks and J. Pelligrino.

Exterior of ice houses and coal yard owned by Maxwell Brothers, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Ice and Wood. Also pictured, Jones and Simmons dealers in masonry supplies. Circa 1900. Carthage, NY. From a Carthage Souvenir Book in the archives of the Carthage Free Library’s Heritage Room.

Tree Surgeon working on fallen limb at Elizabeth “Betty” Stowe’s house on Stowe Lane in South Colton, NY. September 2012, taken by Mary Jane Watson.

Pictured is the Huggard Pit, located near Stark in Town of Colton, NY, which crushed stone for making concrete. Edson A. Martin Construction Company supplied aggregates for the construction of Niagara Mohawk’s Raquette River development in the 1950s.

Clearing the Raquette River area in what used to be the hamlet of Hollywood, prior to construction of Carry Falls dam and subsequent flooding of the hamlet. Man in center, squatting, is Gordon K. Watson. He was part owner of Ford & Watson, who cleared the area. Pulp loader (Ford tractor) in background, designed by […]

Group of Colton men rehabilitating an old camp into a hunting camp. Second from left is Maurice “Shorty” Hutchinson, others unknown. Near Colton, NY. Circa 1950.