North Country At Work

Unidentified workers posing in the South Hammond Quarries on the east side of Route 37. Circa 1890-1900. Hammond, NY.

Loading crushed stone from a stone quarry into wagons, to be used as a road base. 1920s. Hammond, NY.

Ore separator at Lyon Mountain Mine. Circa 1910. Donated by the Sheldon family. Lyon Mountain, NY.

Ore separator at Lyon Mountain. Circa 1910. Donated by the Sheldon Family. Lyon Mountain, NY. [Editor’s note: we assume this was an iron ore operation, but we do not know it for a fact.]

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

W.H. Loomis talc miners in mine at Balmat, a small hamlet in the town of Fowler which was a mining town. Men took picture using headlamps as illumination. Front row: Frank Atkinson, Arnold Whitton, Don Sayerson, Joe Shatreaux, Everett Maybee, Les Davis, Nelson Shampine, Leonard Bresette, Earl Harrington, John Eysman, Roswell Perrin, Sherm Smith, Harold […]

W.H. Loomis talc miners in mine at Balmat, a small hamlet in the town of Fowler, which was a mining town. Men wearing a mix of electric and carbide headlamps, as well as breathing apparatuses. Front row: Frank Atkinson, Arnold Whitton, Don Sayerson, Joe Shatreaux, Everett Maybee, Les Davis, Nelson Shampine, Leonard Bresette, Earl Harrington, […]

Workers at Jones Stone Company with slabs of marble sidewalk, possibly to be put in boxcar at left, bound for Hoboken, New Jersey. Circa 1925-1930. Gouverneur, NY.

Unidentified quarry in Gouverneur. Filling boxcars with blasted rock, using team shovel. Circa 1890-1900. Gouverneur, NY.

Worker operates marble cutting diamond drill, which ran on track, in the St. Lawrence Marble Company quarry. Circa 1890-1900. Gouverneur, NY. Check out our story on how marble built Gouverneur.