North Country At Work

The No. 9 log train actively loading logs with a steam hoist. 1909. Wanakena, 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.

Men cutting tree trunk using drag saw powered by hit-or-miss engine, (a type of four-stroke internal combustion engine) on the Wallace Farm on Mead Road. Circa 1910-1920. Canton, NY.

Sugaring at the Wallace Farm’s sugar bush near Langdon Corners. Pictured is Herbert Judd behind the horses pulling a skidder with a wooden box—possibly used to hold sap. Circa April in the 1910s. Canton, NY. Photo taken by Matthew Wallace. Check out this North Country at Work story on a modern, downtown take on this […]

Jeff Hunt’s crew cleaning up after the January ice storm, trimming trees at Judd’s Farm. June 1998. Canton, NY.

Eureka steam launch and a crew of loggers posing on a dock holding logging tools (peaveys, double bitted axes and pikes) at dock equipped with a hand operated crane for loading logs and lumber onto boats. Circa 1890-1900, Herkimer County. Photo printed by Stratton Photo, Utica, NY

Brown’s Tract Mill on fire. Smoke is billowing through the stacked lumber. Of the nine men pictured, all are unidentified except for Ferris Williams, on the far right, stooping over the hose cart, and Mr. Goodwill, standing on the lumber and looking at the fire.  July 1916. Thendara, NY.

Man driving team of horses with bobsled piled with cut logs during winter. Circa 1910-1920. Town of Webb, NY.

Logger poses using a peavey to move logs during spring log drive in the Adirondacks. Circa 1920. Town of Webb, NY. Click here for a North Country at Work story on Webb’s transformation from logging town to winter wonderland.

Loggers trying to break a log jam with peaveys, during the spring drive. Circa 1920. Town of Webb, NY.