Ogdensburg Port featuring the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain Railroad Company Grain Elevator in background. The elevator was filled with grain and emptied by gravity into boats to export to cities elsewhere. Boat is named the Ogdensburgh & Lake Champlain R.R. Line. 1890. Ogdensburg.
Nelson Brown using a draw shave to shape canoe paddles. He was the foreman of the Rushton Boat Shop and a very skilled boat builder. Behind him hang boat patterns for making boat pieces. Circa 1910. Originally identified and researched by Atwood Manley. Hamlet of Rushton in the Town of Canton, NY.
Photo taken during Winnie Taylor’s boat livery “empire.” His passenger launch “U-Auto-Go” is tied to a dock beside the Little River bridge. Circa 1910-1915. Canton, NY.
A winch is used to lower a boat onto the Black River. The winch is on the railroad car which delivered the boat. The train stopped on the bridge in order to unload the boat. The boat was used to help corral wood being floated down the river to mills. Circa 1930. From the Bill […]
Lumber frequently came to Carthage from mills in Castorland, Beaver Falls and other points between Carthage and Lyons Falls. Sometimes logs were formed into rafts and pulled by tugs. The rafts were often offloaded at the foot of West Street where there were docks and warehouses. 1941. Carthage, NY. William D. Welsh, artist. Caption info […]
Pictured is a pleasure boat docked on Cranberry Lake. A family of four sits inside the boat, the owner stands on the dock. Circa 1910. Cranberry Lake, NY. Check out our story on how trains brought tourism to Cranberry Lake.
Pictured is a boat launching party of men, women, and children, surrounding a boat being dragged on wooden skids by a horse. Rich and Anders General Store and local telephone company are in background. Circa 1910. Wanakena, NY.
Bill Rasbeck, a well-known guide of Cranberry Lake, rows an Adirondack Skiff. An Adirondack Pack Basket sits at his feet, and he smokes a pipe. 1888. Cranberry Lake, NY. Photo taken by Seneca Ray Stoddard and titled: The Way it Looks From the Stern Seat.”
Pictured is Helen, a steam motor launch owned by the Cranberry Lake Transportation Company; she’s docked in front of the Deremos Hotel and loading passengers. Deremos Hotel was built in 1903 and burnt in 1907. Circa 1907. Cranberry Lake.
The steam boat Helen leaving Nunn’s dock at Cranberry Lake. Nunn’s Inn on Cranberry lake (1898-1910) was famous for guided hunting expeditions in the area. Circa 1910. Cranberry Lake.
