Timber Scaler Jack Hanley poses with five pieces of birch lumber in Cranberry Lake. Dave Mac bought one of these pieces to be used as a restaurant counter. Circa 1920. Cranberry Lake, NY.
Shot of a lumber yard on Silver Pond; featuring elevated railroad tracks and stacks of drying lumber. Date unknown. Cranberry Lake, NY.
An exterior shot of Bissell’s Mill, featuring the mill pond, stacked lumber, a wagon, and elevator which took bark and slab waste to an incinerator on the right. Written on the photo is: THE NEW SAW MILL AT CRANBERRY LAKE. Mill erected in 1908. Cranberry Lake, NY.
An exterior shot of a lumber mill and pond, filled with floating logs. On the right a man helps guide logs onto a conveyer belt which lifts the logs into the mill to be processed. Circa 1910. Cranberry Lake, NY.
A man operates the ‘Marion’ steam shovel, owned by the Emporium Forestry Company. Circa 1916. Cranberry Lake, NY. Donated by W.C. Sykes.
A view of stacked and stickered lumber drying in the Emporium Forestry Company lumber yard. Circa 1930s. Cranberry Lake, NY.
A slightly overhead view of the Emporium Forestry Company lumber yard in Cranberry Lake, under a light layer of snow. Circa 1930s. Cranberry Lake, NY.
Men walk through stacks of cut and milled lumber in the Emporium Forestry Company lumber yard. Circa 1930s. Cranberry Lake, NY.
A man stands in the doorway of the Chester Van Ornum Sawmill, at thead of the log ramp, which was a water-powered sawmill using a reciprocating (straight) saw. Stacked, drying lumber can be seen on the right, next to the mill. Circa 1890. Degrasse, NY.
Exterior of Pope’s Saw and Grist Mill, and the yard in front of it, which is full of slabwood and milled lumber. The mill was run by the Pope family from 1816 to 1927. Old grange hall can be seen at background left. Circa 1900. Pope Mills in the town of Macomb, NY.
