North Country At Work

Construction of the international bridge linking Alexandria Bay to Wellesley Island and Canada took place in the 1930s. This photo is from about 1937-38. Alexandria Bay, NY area.

View from the American side of the construction of international bridge between Alexandria Bay, NY area and Wellesley Island and Canada. Circa 1937-38.

Building Camp Drum, bulldozer with land leveler pictured here. Circa 1941-1942. Fort Drum area. Note: Pine Plains/Pine Camp started in 1908, became Camp Drum in 1951, and Fort Drum in 1974. At all stages it was used for winter training of military personnel, and became home to the 10th Mountain Division.

Steam engine–with traction engine–was used as a traveling power unit to run all sorts of machinery including stone crushers, thrashers or road graders. Many towns owned a steam engine that was used for a variety of public works projects. Unknown workers. Circa 1890-1910. Donated by the Champion Grange. Champion, NY.

Building a concrete dam. Note wooden forms. 1910. Great Bend, NY.

The Thousand Island Bridge, known as the Ivy Lea Bridge on the Canadian Side, from mainland US to Wellesley Island and Canada. Circa 1935-37. Wellseley Island, NY.

Atlas Cement Company unidentified workers. 1920. Adams, 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.

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

This Main Street photo was taken during removal of a section of the marble sidewalk. Photograph by Nelson B. Winters, Town of Gouverneur Historian. October 11, 1995. Gouverneur, NY.