North Country At Work

Bears performing for guests at Holland’s Blue Mountain House, rebuilt in 1886. Circa 1890-1900. Blue Mountain Lake, NY.

The Cutting brothers shearing sheep in Lewis, NY. Date unknown, sometime between 1890 and 1920.

Poling chunks of ice down the channel during the Carthage, NY ice harvest. Ice saw in operation in background. 1947. Carthage Ice Harvest Collection donated by Eleanor Query, whose father, Francis George Query, is pictured in many of the photos. Related story, here.

Cows are going into the barn for the night (and possibly for evening milking). The Sherwood-Bullard house is adjacent to the barn. This was the home of the Jerden Falls tannery owners, and was later owned by the Chartrand family. Town of Diana, NY. Circa 1900.

Eugene Cole house on the French Settlement Road. Pictured from left to right is an old log house, more modern farmhouse, and two barns. Family homestead where Barbara Cole was born. Now Brown Creek Club (hunting). Town of Diana, NY. Circa 1920.

Riverside House station wagon outside a Harrisville livery. The livery was used to board horses, both local and visiting. One could also rent a horse. Pictured out front is a “station wagon” buggy filled with passengers. They would have ridden the buggy from the station to their destination. Taken September 26, 1915. Harrisville, NY.

Members of the Elthorp family butchering pigs at their farm in Hammond, NY. Circa 1910-1920.

Young Bronze Beauties, a breed developed by Timmerman’s farm, being fattened for the Thanksgiving market. The birds are crowding around a range grain feeder. Circa 1950. Photo taken at Timmerman’s Farm in the Town of Orleans. LaFargeville, NY.   Click here to read a North Country at Work story on a Lisbon girl who hid […]

Timmerman’s turkey farm was the largest–and last big turkey producer–in Northern New York. It went of business in the early 1980s. On the right, you can see the barn where baby turkeys were raised until they were old enough to be put outside. Circa 1950. Unknown workers. LaFargeville, NY. Check out our story on Heuvelton’s […]

Carleton Villa, also known as Wyckoff Villa, on Carleton Island in the Thousand Islands. This photo was taken by Alice Peebles Dungey. Her uncle, Clair Smith pictured here with a young calf, was a graduate of Cornell and was the manager of the Carleton Villa farm. Photo donated by Gordon S. Dungey, Alice’s son. 1914.