Construction at the Rainbow Falls hydro-electric generating station (completed in 1956), the third plant in Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation’s Raquette River development. Rainbow Falls had the largest dam. Its reservoir covered 700 acres and had the capacity for 700 million cubic feet of water. Circa early 1950s. Town of Clare. Taken by the Niagara Mohawk […]
The 6th Lake Dam. Circa 1909. Inlet, NY. Photo courtesy of the Hamilton County Historian’s Office.
Pulp mill and dam on Moose River. Pulpwood piles on right. Handwritten on photo: “PULP MILL AND DAM McKEEVER N.Y.” Photograph by Henry M. Beach. Circa 1910. McKeever, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.
Construction at Kent Falls Dam System Properties Inc. on the Saranac River between Cadyville and Morrisonville. The project was undertaken by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1933. Photo circa 1930s. Near Morrisonville in the Town of Plattsburgh. Clinton County Historical Association. Brewer Collection.
In 1892, George Wing Sisson Sr. bought the site of the old Union Mill at Unionville, on the east side of the Racquette River, for $50,000. The old saw mill was torn down and the Racquette River Paper Company was built. A new wooden dam and flume were also constructed. Production began with three wood […]
Seven men stand atop a crib dam under construction on the St. Regis River in Nicholville; the wooden cribs are built, but have not yet been filled with stones. Among the men are Sam Chambers and his sons Raoul and Edwin. Circa 1900. Nicholville, a hamlet of Lawrence, NY.
Building site of the Cranberry Lake State Dam, including wooden scaffolding. 1916. Cranberry Lake, NY. Photo by J. Reynolds.
Above the dam on the Grasse River where the DeGrasse Paper Company, informally known as the Pyrites Paper Plant, sorted all the logs for the paper-making process. Circa 1900-1910. Pyrites, NY.
Dam at Newton Falls under construction. Pictured are a crew of workers building concrete forms for the dam at Newton Falls. 1895. Newton Falls, NY. From the William Kellogg Collection.
The crib tunnel dam, a temporarily dam built when logs were being driven on the river. Dam would be closed so the water backed up behind it. When there was enough water and logs built up behind it, the dam was released to allow logs to float downstream to the mills. Harrisville, NY. Circa 1900.
