The Rockwood family (left to right): June, Alice, Rose, and Allen, by an automobile in front of their farmhouse. Photo courtesy of John Stano. Early 1930s. Pillar Point, NY. Check out our story on the Rockwood family farm.
Potsdam Electric Light & Power Company service truck No. 1. In 1913, this Model T Ford service truck was one of three vehicles operating out of Potsdam for the Hannawa Falls Electric Light and Power Co. Arthur Cassada, a Clarkson Graduate and electrician, was the truck’s first driver. The vehicle’s service to the company was […]
Officer Jordan Nason of the Tupper Lake Police Department with JD, the TLPD’s K-9 Unit. 2017. Tupper Lake, NY. Photo courtesy of the Tupper Lake Police Department. Read our full North Country at Work story and interview with Tupper Lake Police Department Police Chief Eric Proulx here.
Officer Tom Proulx in a Tupper Lake Police Department vehicle. 1978. Tupper Lake, NY. Photo courtesy of the Tupper Lake Police Department. Read the full North Country at Work story and interview with Tupper Lake Police Department Police Chief Eric Proulx here.
Eric Proulx shows off the inside of a TLPD cruiser, one of two Ford Interceptor SUVs. Each has a radio, computer, lighting equipment and sirens, plus a patrol rifle, shotgun and a radar unit in the front. Gear stored in the back includes a medical bag, road flares, cones, measuring tape and a defibrillator. 2017. […]
View of businesses on Main Street in Hermon, looking north towards intersection with Church Street. Farmers Sheds on left and various commercial enterprises including Pepper’s Clothing store. Note rutted, unpaved road with early automobile on left and horse/wagon at far end of street on the right. Circa 1910. Hermon, NY.
Pictured on the left is Hendrickson appliances and paint store, the First National Bank of Hermon. Pictured on the right is the Hotel Hermon, Green Furniture Company, department store, gas station and fire-proof garage, and in the far back the Baptist church. Circa 1950. Downtown Hermon, NY.
A team of horses towing a 1905 Jackson Automobile on Church St in Hermon. Circa 1905-1910. Hermon, NY.
Dr. Cole pumps gas into a car at his drugstore in De Kalb Junction. Most gasoline was sold by drugstores before 1910. Cole family collection. Circa 1908. De Kalb Junction in the Town of De Kalb, NY.
Newton Falls Post Office, Associated Stores, and a gas pump. Circa 1954. Newton Falls, NY. Dwight Church??
