Tag: logging

Logging camp residents near Colton

Logging camp, circa 1900. Colton area.Photo shows details of camp set up including hay supply for horses and grindstone for sharpening tools. Related article on logging here.

Men working on a log jam below Colton

Log jam just below Colton, NY on the Raquette River. Watching the log jams was a spectator sport, with residents coming out in their finery to watch the action. Circa 1900. Related article on logging here.

Logging sleigh in Colton

Logging crew with sled load of logs, circa 1900. Near Colton, NY. Related article on logging here.

Clearing the Raquette River in Hollywood Hamlet

Clearing the Raquette River area in what used to be the hamlet of Hollywood, prior to construction of Carry Falls dam and subsequent flooding of the hamlet. Man in center, squatting, is Gordon K. Watson. He was part owner of Ford & Watson, who cleared the area. Pulp loader (Ford tractor) in background, designed by […]