North Country At Work

A two horse treadmill powering a thresher on the Southworth Farm. The thresher separated the grain from the chaff (stalks/stems). Circa 1920. Canton, NY.

The St. Lawrence Plaindealer office and J.M. McIntosh store on Main Street, after a snowstorm.  Canton, NY. Circa 1900.

Saw mill worker with mill horses in Natural Bridge, NY. 1920’s.

Lime quarry in Natural Bridge, NY. Date unknown.

National Hotel taxi outside the hotel. Elmer Bradway was the owner of the hotel when this photo was taken in 1899. Carthage, NY.

D.J. Tiffany’s grocery at 78 North Mechanic Street. He sold milk, cream, and groceries, and made deliveries in the pictured three horse-drawn wagons. 1913. Carthage, NY. Photo courtesy of S.H. Greene, Chaumont, NY. From a booklet written by Dudley Danielson called “Carthage, NY – 1785-1980.”

Chester Bovee and his father bringing in a load of loose hay on the Bovee family farm in 1920. Somewhere in Jefferson County in NYS. From an article written by Gladys’s sister, Evelyn Constance Bovee in the Watertown Daily Times, published on November 17, 1982. Related article on dairy farming here.

Big Mike and Jerry (horses’ names) ready to haul logs, 1918, Colton, NY. Teamster unknown. Related story on logging in Colton here.

A team of draft horses pulling a skidway icer.  The machine is a box on skis holding a barrel of  hot water. As it was pulled the icer “lay” water in a thin stream which hardened into ice, creating a slippery surface–easier for horses to pull logs and sleighs out of the woods. Circa 1900 around Colton, […]

An enormous load of pulp wood being pulled by horses, circa 1900, Colton, NY. Related story on Colton logging here.