North Country At Work

A snowplow was attached to an engine to clear away snow on the rail tracks. Circa 1940s. Dexter, NY.

An engine was parked on a railroad bridge to prevent the bridge from washing away during the flood of 1910 or 1913. Dexter, NY.

Building the short dam over the north channel of the Black River, near where it empties into the Black River Bay of Lake Ontario. Circa 1910. Dexter, NY.

Leander Soule’s ferry ran between Pillar Point and Sackets Harbor for many years around the turn of the century. Circa 1900. Photo from Town and Country, which published it on 9/20/72. Sackets Harbor, NY.

Leander Soule’s ferry out of Sackets Harbor. Circa 1900. Sackets Harbor, NY.

Building Dexter to Limerick highway, August 8, 1964. Dexter, NY.

William Street in 1912. Dexter, NY.

Hackman Eugene G. Clark and baggage man Weston Gould with a load of trunks to be delivered to the New York Central Depot. Donated by Wallace B. Sloat, published in the Watertown Daily Times. Circa 1882. Dexter, NY.

Scott Trucking driver at work at W. H. Loomis talc mine. Circa 1940-1950. Fowler, NY.

Blocks of marble stacked for shipping on dock at Saint Lawrence Marble Company. Marble would be loaded into wooden boxcars to be sent to different locations (one boxcar owned by Wabash Railroad, one owned by St.Paul-Minneapolis company). Three teams of oxen, one team of horses, and an individual horse being used to move blocks. Circa […]