North Country At Work

Felt paper drying machine in the Mallard and Rice Box Factory, Copenhagen, NY. Circa 1900-1910.

Chipping wood in the Mallard and Rice Box Factory, Copenhagen, NY. Circa 1900-1910.

A team of draft horses pulling a skidway icer.  The machine is a box on skis holding a barrel of  hot water. As it was pulled the icer “lay” water in a thin stream which hardened into ice, creating a slippery surface–easier for horses to pull logs and sleighs out of the woods. Circa 1900 around Colton, […]

Riverside Drive under construction in 1924. Early Northwest track hoe in operation. Colton, NY.

Colton’s Highway Maintenance crew snow plowing with a V plow in 1947. Town of Colton, NY.

Colton’s Highway Department crew posing in deep snow with their snow plow in 1947. Town of Colton, NY.

Tree Surgeon working on fallen limb at Elizabeth “Betty” Stowe’s house on Stowe Lane in South Colton, NY. September 2012, taken by Mary Jane Watson.

Pictured is the Huggard Pit, located near Stark in Town of Colton, NY, which crushed stone for making concrete. Edson A. Martin Construction Company supplied aggregates for the construction of Niagara Mohawk’s Raquette River development in the 1950s.

Ervin “Ike” Rutley of Colton driving the “weasel” at the Saint Lawrence Snow Bowl in South Colton, NY, January 27, 1965. Ike is pictured at the wheel of the weasel, which he used to pack the hill, make trails, and prepare the jumping areas. Students pictured, left to right, are Dick Hanson, Doug Jones, and […]

Mr. Jerome “Jerry” Wilson with Colton High School’s Industrial Arts Club, Colton, NY, in 1977. Pictured from left to right: Mr. Jerome “Jerry” Wilson (teacher), Andy Paul, Jeff Regan, Peter Watson, Calvin Sharlow.