North Country At Work

Interior of Cheeseman’s Dry Goods Store with a man behind the counter. Photograph by William F. Kollecker. 1915. Lake Placid, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.

Two unknown gentlemen in suits inspect wheels of cheese inside the Hermon Dairy Company in Hermon. Circa 1930-1940. Hermon, NY.

Interior of early country cheese factory showing cheese vats and interior of milk receiving station. Circa 1890 to 1900. Hermon, NY.

The Hermon Dairy Company was located on Washington Street. Pictured are cheese vats and cheese hoops for forming wheels of cheese in foreground. Employees are standing in background. Circa 1930-1940. Hermon, NY

Casey Galligan, Creamery Manager, gives out samples of cheese in the farm store of Sugar House Creamery, a farm and cheese-making business that makes European-style cheese from twelve Brown Swiss cows. 2016. Upper Jay, NY. Photo is a still from a video produced by Josh Clements Productions for ANCA (the Adirondack North Country Association.

Margot Brooks washing cheeses inside the cheese cave of Sugar House Creamery, a farm and cheese-making business that makes European-style cheese from twelve Brown Swiss cows. 2016. Upper Jay, NY. Photo is a still from a video produced by Josh Clements Productions for ANCA (the Adirondack North Country Association)

Margot Brooks walks cows into the barn at the Sugar House Creamery farm, where she and the rest of the Sugar House Creamery team make European-style cheese from twelve Brown Swiss cows. 2016. Upper Jay, NY. Photo is a still from a video produced by Josh Clements Productions for ANCA (the Adirondack North Country Association).

Margot Brooks sweeping the barn floor at the Sugar House Creamery farm, where she and the rest of the Sugar House Creamery team make European-style cheese from twelve Brown Swiss cows. 2016. Upper Jay, NY. Photo is a still from a video produced by Josh Clements Productions for ANCA (the Adirondack North Country Association).

Floyd Denesha poses inside the De Kalb Cheese factory. Whey pumps and cheese vats can be seen in foreground. Against the back wall is the press for forming wheels of cheese. 1940. Town of De Kalb, NY.

The exterior of a cheese factory at Pierce’s Corners, an area in southwestern Macomb. Three men stand at entrance to the factory, next to a poster for the St. Lawrence County Fair in Canton, NY, from September 17-20, 1912. Milk receiving platform on right. 1912. Pierce’s Corners in the town of Macomb, NY.