A farmer is unloading bundles of corn into an ensilage cutter in Hermon. The ensilage cutter cuts the corn into small pieces and blows it into a silo where it is stored for winter livestock feed. Circa 1900-1910. Hermon, NY.
Farmer with horse-drawn wagon of boxed produce for transport to market. Circa 1900-1910s. Hermon, NY.
Farmers line up with their trucks and horse drawn wagons to drop off milk at the Hermon Dairy Company on Washington Street. Circa 1930-1940. Hermon, NY.
Harry Wilson on his mail route, driving a team of horses. Circa 1920s. Essex County. Photo courtesy of Dan Berggren. The full story on mail carriers of the Adirondacks, from wagons to boats, and inclement weather, can be read here.
View of businesses on Main Street in Hermon, looking north towards intersection with Church Street. Farmers Sheds on left and various commercial enterprises including Pepper’s Clothing store. Note rutted, unpaved road with early automobile on left and horse/wagon at far end of street on the right. Circa 1910. Hermon, NY.
James Hotaling posing with his horse drawn stagecoach in front of train tracks. Written on the coach is: Hotels and Residences. This stagecoach transported people between the train depot and hotels in Hermon and Russell; Trout Lake was a popular destination. Note “old-fashioned” long dresses and short capes of the two older women standing next […]
Three workers are unloading bundles of corn into an silage cutter on the Bonnie View homestead. Corn and other feeds were chopped before being fed into the silo for storing as winter feed for cows, horses and other livestock. Circa 1900. Hermon, NY.
Man delivering oil for Standard Oil Company of New York in horse drawn wagon. Note three horse hitch. Circa 1890-1900. Hermon, NY.
James Chaney and Amos Howlett with a wagon full of furnishings for a new hotel on Cranberry Lake on the Tooley Pond Road. April 14 and 15, 1886. Town of De Grasse, NY.
Herbert and Donald Thompson pose on top of the Thompson farm’s last load of hay. 1936. Osbornville in the Town of De Kalb, NY.
