North Country At Work

New York Central Engine #1798 is posed with a train of ore cars ready to be unloaded into the processing mill. Circa 1910-1920. Stellaville in the Town of De Kalb, NY.

View of the St. Lawrence Pyrites Company ore-concentration mill and mining buildings. Engine house of Adirondack and St. Lawrence RR on right. Circa 1906-1910. Stellaville in the Town of De Kalb, NY.

Floyd Denesha poses inside the De Kalb Cheese factory. Whey pumps and cheese vats can be seen in foreground. Against the back wall is the press for forming wheels of cheese. 1940. Town of De Kalb, NY.

Working men pose for a portrait at Bissell’s Mill. 1912. Cranberry Lake, NY. Maurice Offord

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.