North Country At Work

Workers cutting stone in Gouverneur. Electric powered, not steam powered equipment. Circa 1930s. Gouverneur.

Steam powered boom rig takes blocks out of marble quarry. 1890-1900. Gouverneur, NY.

Portrait of workers at Stella Mines. Caption with photograph reads: Willis Warren Wells is the tall, thin faced man in the back row, seventh from the right. This building is not the ore-processing mill. The open-ended building seen faintly in the upper left corner, however, may be the railroad repair shop and its elevated track. […]

Exterior shot of the Ontario Talc Company milling operation, comprised of four buildings and wooden structures on the West Branch of the Oswegatchie River. Circa 1900-1910. Fullerville in the Town of Fowler, NY. Check out North Country at Work’s story on the dangers of talc mining.

The above ground structure covering the St. Lawrence Pyrites Company’s No. 4 mine shaft. Train tracks run right next to the mine, and open gondola cars filled with ore sit on the tracks.  Circa 1906. Outside  Stellaville, a hamlet of De Kalb, NY.

Exterior of the the St. Lawrence Pyrites Mill which processed ore for its Sulphur (which was then used in paper making processes), featuring railroad tracks and an open wooden car in front of the mill building, waste water holding pond in foreground. Circa 1906. In Stellaville, a hamlet of De Kalb, NY.

Three quarry workers lifting large pieces of Potsdam Sandstone by crane. 1956. Hannawa Falls.

Talc mine workers in the Number 2 ½ mine, which was said to be largest in the world at the time. 1956. Talcville in the Town of Edwards, NY. Check out North Country at Work’s story on the dangers of talc mining.

Dick Thayer and Eugene McGunnis climbing out of a Talc mine by ladder. 1956. Talcville in the Town of Edwards, NY. Check out North Country at Work’s story on the dangers of talc mining. 

Survey party on sled pulled by horses. Circa 1900- 1910. Fine, NY.