North Country At Work

Men with teams of horses in the lumber yard of the Cardiff and Sons sawmill. Circa 1900. Fine, NY.

Workers and horses in the yard outside the sawmill on the Little River with storage farm and office, built by J. Colby. Later owners were John Truin, J. La Jane, Coltons, and W. Trudo. Circa 1900. Fine, NY.

Caption by SLCHA Archive: This picture shows one of two generators being hauled from the station at Oswegatchie to the first power house at Brown’s Falls. The road was either sand or mud. The generator was inched along by eight strong horses, and the trip took about three days. Teamsters walk alongside the horses to […]

A horse drawn bobsled of large logs marked with chalk. Three men stand on the logs, which were destined for the Woodcock sawmill. 5781 board feet. Circa 1900. Edwards, NY.

Ore being drawn from the mine to the railroad. Driving the first team of horses is Claude Hance. Story attached to photo at the SLCHA Archives: Robert McFerran brought the horses a chocolate each morning on the first trip down and the horses would stop and refuse to go past the store until they had […]

Men posing outside the New York Central Railroad station with a trophy deer on a luggage wagon. Circa 1900. Newton Falls, NY.

Exterior of a sawmill in Newton Falls. Pictured in the yard are wagon hitches, horses, stumps of cut trees. On the left is the entrance to the sawmill and milled lumber. Circa 1890. Newton Falls, NY. Photo by Dwight Seog.

Almeron Judd (front) and Frank Judd (rear) mowing on the Wallace farm, which operated 1910-1941. Photo taken circa 1910s. Canton, NY.

Judd Family loading hay with hay loader at Wallace Farm. One of the men on the wagon is Almeron Judd, the man on the ground is Frank Judd. Circa 1910s. At the Wallace Farm in Canton, NY.

Men with load of logs on bobsled. Circa 1900-1915. Canton, NY.