North Country At Work

Exterior shot of the Lime Quarry and Mill in Lewisburg, operated by the New York Lime Company. Note ladders into quarry. Between 1906 and 1920. Lewisburg in Natural Bridge in NY.

Aerial view of the Jones & Laughlin Ore Company in Benson Mines, NY. Circa 1950s. Near Star Lake, NY. By photographer Dwight Church of Canton, NY. Circa 1950.

Worker operating machinery in the quarries of the Cabot Wollastonite White Pigments Division plant, owned by the Cabot Carbon Company, picturing smokestacks during winter. Willsboro, New York. Circa 1940s. Photographer is Bernie A. Degnan, Glens Falls.

In the quarries of the Cabot Wollastonite White Pigments Division plant, owned by the Cabot Carbon Company, picturing smokestacks during winter. Willsboro, New York. Circa 1940s. Photographer is Bernie A. Degnan, Glens Falls.

Moving stone using a small dump truck and SIMCO bobcat in the quarries of the Cabot Wollastonite White Pigments Division plant, owned by the Cabot Carbon Company. Willsboro, New York. Circa 1940s. Photographer is Bernie A. Degnan, Glens Falls.

Cabot Wollastonite White Pigments Division plant was owned by the Cabot Carbon Company. Pictured are railroad tracks and ore cars, a worker checking barrels, and a stone elevator. Willsboro, New York. Circa 1940s. Photographer is Bernie A. Degnan, Glens Falls.

Worker inside the Cabot Carbon Company’s Wollastonite White Pigments Division plant in Willsboro, New York. The plant mined wollastonite ore, which was ground and made into white pigment. Circa 1940s. Willsboro, New York. Photographer is Bernie A. Degnan, Glens Falls.

The Cabot Wollastonite White Pigments Division plant was owned by the Cabot Carbon Company, and mined wollastonite ore, which was ground and made into white pigment. A man stands in front of the plant and railroad tracks that run directly alongside the plant. Engine #4013 was owned by the Delaware & Hudson Railway. Circa 1950s. […]

The Boynton & McNally Crusher Plant used a stationary steam engine,  fed by a water pipe (seen on left of photo). Bucket elevator in the center of photo, lifted rocks into hopper, then fed rocks down into a stone crusher. 1912. Elizabethtown, NY.

Caption on photo reads: William Michalak operating an EImco 40 Shovel Loader. Inside the mines owned and operated by Witherbees, Sherman, & Company until 1939; then, leased to and operated by Republic Steel until 1971. Circa 1940s. Mineville in the Town of Moriah, NY.