The Snyder House (middle) and Breckenridge & Snyder corner store which sold McCormick Harvesting machinery. They were located across the Oswegatchie River from Pickens Hall. The Snyder House was operated by John Snyder, son of Samuel and Sally Snyder. Circa 1880s. Heuvelton, NY.
Inside the McFadden & Anderson Mill (a grist and flour mill) with Otis Dewan. The building was constructed in 1853 by N.F. Giffin. Note the overhead light, which would have been new at the time this photo was taken. Circa 1900-1910. Heuvelton, NY.
Sherwins Mill: Flour, Seed & Farm Seed. Erected in 1859-60 by Lucius Moody (brother-in-law of Silas Wright), the mill was originally a fine three story brick building, 40’ by 60’ in size, that housed four runs of stones and machinery for grinding out wheat, oats, barley, corn, and buckwheat. Ownership passed from Moody to Hodskin […]
Unidentified men in front of Lynn Rogers Meat Market in downtown Canton. Circa 1880. Canton, NY.
G.B. Mangin Fruit Stand on Main Street, featuring bananas. Canton, NY. Circa 1900. (Unknown if man in photo is Mr. Mangin.)
R.E. Cleveland Cold Storage facility on West Street, with refrigerated wooden box cars from Merchants Dispatch Transportation Company. Circa 1910. Canton, NY.
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.
Jay and Dan Blanchard bringing in loose hay using a team of oxen. Circa 1910s. Natural Bridge, NY.
Butcher Henry Burns (on left in striped apron) in his meat market in Newton Falls, NY.
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.
