North Country At Work

Cutting ice using horses, saws, and ice pikes. Circa 1910-1920. Hammond, NY.

Unidentified men cutting ice near Oak Island in Hammond. Ice saw and horses in background. Man in foreground holding a pike for moving ice. Note: Every cheese factory needed an icehouse to keep cheese cool in the summer. Most towns had several cheese factories to handle milk produced by area farmers. Circa 1910-1920. Hammond, NY.

Getting the mail out in the big snow of 1947, using a horse and bobsled. Hammond, NY.

Elmer Sprague, Star Route carrier, delivering mail to Rossie Post Office. Model A Ford has half-tracks on for winter driving – to get them on he had to remove fender. Circa 1930s. Rossie, NY.

Harvesting ice on Dark Island. Pictured is a ramp used to move ice into ice house. Circa 1910-1920. Hammond, NY.

Men working on the construction of the dock at Knapp’s Island. Circa 1900-1910. Chippewa Bay, NY. Photo donated by Jennifer McGregor.  

Two men (one of which is J. Sisson) transporting rolls of paper to the railroad station, using a horse drawn sled on runners. Circa 1920. Great Bend, NY.

Great Bend Firemen (1st department) stand in “uniform” in front of their fire truck. Circa 1938. Great Bend, NY. Men, from left to right, are: Paul Snyder, Leonard (Mose) Wiltonstock, Floyd Rendle (chief), Harold Comstock, Joel Bacon, Jerome Sisson, James Call, Fred Sterling, James Green, and C. B. Dodge.

“The early logging camps of our company, just after the turn of the century, were located in our original 80,000 acre tract of timberland along the St. Regis River in northern New York.” Circa 1900. Jefferson County in NYS. Originally printed in the St. Regis News Volume 2, Number 9 of September 1974, a newsletter […]

Rotary snowplow clearing track near the Depot in Carthage, NY during winter of 1915.