Pine Camp, a military base in Jefferson County, started in 1908. It was renamed Camp Drum in 1951, and finally Fort Drum in 1974. At all stages it was used for winter military training and was home to the 10th Mountain Division. Here is a collection of photos taken at Pine Camp between 1930 and 1950.
Logging is an essential part of the North Country’s history. For years, men stacked logs atop wagons and bobsleds and pulled them where they needed to go. They would also pile them beside rivers and then release them, floating the logs downriver to their destination. Collected here are photos of these log stacks from across the […]
These North Country at Work photos come to us from Jacqueline Hallock, who submitted them via the NC@Work website – they’re all from inside branches of the Champlain National Bank, ranging from the 1950s to the early 1970s. Take a look at tellers hand filing checks, posting transactions to the General Ledger, and working the […]
This collection of photos comes from the St. Lawrence County Historical Association, and shows the step-by-step work of a small logging outfit during the winter, circa 1900-1915. In the Canton area. Names of men working unknown.
This collection of photos comes from the Climax Manufacturing Company archives, and were scanned by Lynn Thorntown for the Four Rivers Historical Society. They depict the paper-making process and machinery in use in the 1940s.
Deferiet is the quintessential company town, as are many towns and communities across the North Country. In Deferiet, the ‘company’ was the St. Regis Paper Company, which employed hundreds of residents in its heyday. Deferiet was also the site of an early paper union strike, which you can read more about here. For descriptions of life […]
Snow is one thing Northern New York can count on. Collected here are all the blizzard photos we’ve collected from across the region.
Many of the photos held by institutions and museums around the North Country were taken by photographer Henry M. Beach – he was a prolific artist and traveled all over the region capturing scenes of life and business. You can read our full North Country at Work article about him here. This collection of his […]
Photos from around the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation mine and plant in Benson Mines, which processed iron ore. It includes shots of the company machine shop and garage, chemistry lab, and plant.
A collection of photographs offering an inside look at the inner workings of the Newton Falls Paper Mill in the 1940s and 1950s. Photos courtesy of the Town of Clifton Museum, from the Ernie Bognar Collection, as furnished through the courtesy of Randy Clark.
