North Country At Work

Maude Mahaffey hand carrying milk pails to the milk house. 1950. Boonville, NY.

Firefighters extinguishing a barn fire in the night. Circa 1990s. Heuvelton, NY.

Fred Baxter and Howard Crowe standing on top of a major haystack. A turkey range house can be seen in the foreground. Circa 1900. Heuvelton, NY. Check out our story on Heuvelton’s past as “turkey central”

Pictured is a threshing machine for oats. An unidentified man feeds oats in at one side, the finished grain is deposited into a wheel barrow, and is finally moved via elevator into the building on the right. August, 1962. Heuvelton, NY.

Unidentified man harvesting oats with a grain binder. August, 1962. Heuvelton, NY.

Fred Baxter and Bert Crowe loading hay by hand onto a horse drawn wagon.  Circa 1900. Heuvelton, NY.

Mr. and Mrs. John McKelvey in front of their pioneer-hewn log cabin with dovetail corners. Mrs. McKelvey is tending their chickens. Circa 1880s. Heuvelton, NY.

Fred Baxter, Bert Crowe, and William Henry Boyd putting corn into a silo using an elevator-type ensilage cutter, which is a machine that chops up green fodder for feed. Circa 1910. Heuvelton, NY.

N.F. Giffin’s Steam Grist Mill, which later became a butter factory, and later still a cheese plant. Circa 1880s. Heuvelton, NY.

Unidentified men pitching oats into a steam engine driven threshing machine to separate grain from the straw and chaff. Circa 1880s. Heuvelton, NY.