North Country At Work

Box factory in Rensselaer Falls. Water diversion canal pictured in front. All factories in Rensselaer Falls ran off hydro-power from the diverted river. Circa 1890s. Rensselaer Falls, NY.

Interior of the Grasse Paper Company Mill. Workers stand next to paper making machinery. Circa 1910-1920. Pyrites, NY. Check out our story on the boom (and bust) of Pyrites here.

Over the old log chute at the Grasse Paper Company Mill steam engine powered log booms are positioned to lift materials for the wall into place. The “chute” may have been an old power tube. Circa 1905. Pyrites, NY.

Grasse Paper Company Mill –This appears to be an agricultural barn being converted for industrial use, possibly with a papermill. Small building on right is an ice house. Circa 1900. Pyrites, NY.

Grasse Paper Company railroad locomotive in front of the Pyrites paper mill. Railroad workers are visible inside and on the ground next to the engine. Circa 1910. Pyrites, NY.

Laurence Eldridge Monument Works and employees stand among marble monuments. The business shared the building with E.E. Stevens Harness Shop. Posters on the exterior of the building are of professional boxer John L. Sullivan. 1890-1900. Court Street in Canton, NY.

Planing mill owned by a Mr. Hefferman, located on the Grasse River in Canton. Workers are posed between the mill and railroad tracks. One worker stands atop a load of lumber on a wagon with a horse hitched to it. 1900-1910. Canton, NY.

Workers stand outside the Hudson Condensed Milk Company, which was located on Main Street near Hermon’s old stone bridge. Circa 1915. Hermon, NY.

Three employees stand inside the Kelley and Moore Tin Shop on Main Street. Metal break and rolling machine as well as other metal working tools are pictured. Circa 1910s. Lisbon, NY.

DeGrasse Paper Company from above. Circa 1903-1916. Pyrites, NY.