The Trombly family posing inside the offices/work space of Modern Mechanical Fab, a metal fabrication company that builds large metal works in Champlain. From left to right: Brandon Trombly and his child, John Trombly, and Heather. August 2019. Photo courtesy of John and Heather Trombly. You can read and listen to the whole story here, […]
Patrick John Henry McKenty visits the Triangle Lumber Company mill, where he worked in the 1960s and 70s. Onchiota, NY. September 22, 1996. Photo donated by Jill McKenty.
Two men operate a circular sawmill inside the Triangle Lumber Company mill in Onchiota. The Triangle Lumber Company was owned by James LaTour. Onchiota, NY. Circa 1960s to 1970. Photo donated by Jill McKenty.
Workers use a cable boom and grapple to load logs onto a truck for the Triangle Lumber Company mill in Onchiota. Triangle Lumber Company was owned by James LaTour. Onchiota, NY. Circa 1960 to 1970. Photo donated by Jill McKenty.
Lumberjack Philip Jackson operating a 1978 John Deere 440C skidder. In the foreground is Jack Pulsifer. The skidder is on top of a pile of large, soft maple logs cut close to the Boquet River. Spring 2016. Elizabethtown, NY. Courtesy of Philip N. Jackson IV. Jackson says he’s been logging for about 66 years. Listen […]
Cranker’s Machine Shop on Mill Point. Cranker was a gunsmith and a toolmaker. He also made motors, and put the motor into the first fire boat in town. The shop closed in the 1960s. Circa 1940. Alexandria Bay, NY. Courtesy of the Alexandria Township Historical Society.
Robert Cranker holding a rifle inside the Cranker Machine Shop. Cranker was a gunsmith, toolmaker, and was said to have put the motor into the first fire boat in town. Date circa 1930s. Alexandria Bay, NY. Courtesy of John Peach.
Robert Service working on the Thousand Islands Bridge. He and another worker, Donny Sanford, went up and took off the old aviation lights to install LED lights, lowering the old lights down on a pulley. 1988. Near the Thousand Islands, NY. Courtesy of Robert Service. Service graduated from Alexandria Central School in 1969, and went […]
Robert Service working on the Thousand Islands Bridge. He and another worker, Donny Sanford, went up and took off the old aviation lights to install LED lights, lowering the old lights down on a pulley. Service was the director of maintenance & construction and bridge operations. Summer of 1988. Alexandria Bay, NY. Courtesy of Robert […]
A stack of white pine logs on a Mack tri-axle loader. The logs were cut by Jack Pulsifer and Philip N Jackson IV by Lincoln Pond. Spring 2016. Elizabethtown, NY. Courtesy of Philip N. Jackson IV.
