Photo Gallery
People
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Abe Rosen -
Pauline Rosen -
John Hadwen Perry -
John Hadwen, Ethel (Patch), and Doris Perry. 1913 at their home on Danby Hill Road, Danby, VT -
Ethel M. Perry -
Most Rev Louis De Goesbriand. Bishop 1853-1899 -
Danby Buroughs School Class Photo -
Mt. Tabor School -
Griffith workers in front of the duplex on Depot Street extension -
The Boys – Silas Griffith’s Club -
Griffith workers in front of the duplex on Depot Street extension -
Peter I. and his wife Sarah Ackert who came to Danby in the early 1920s and purchased Bond’s Hotel on Main Street, and built the original cold storage behind it. -
P.A. Broughton, a local blacksmith in the mid 1800’s -
P.A. Broughton’s daughter, Emma Broughton and husband Omar Wetherby -
1910 at Lake Griffith House, left to right – Top Row: Ben Long, Anna Long, Nelson Nichols, William Nichols (baby), Florence Nichols. Middle Row: Charlie Raiche, Winona Raiche, Joe Raiche (baby), Alice (Otis) Davison, Sarah Otis, Anna Davison, Clare Bradford, Wendell Davison (little boy), Gene Davison. -
Elizabeth Nichols, Mary Nichols, and Anna Rosen by the Masonic Triangle with fountain and Danby Civil War cannon in background
Industry
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Building the road to Griffith Lake -
Griffith Works at Depot -
Steam Sawmill at Griffith -
Ackert’s cold storage -
Marble -
Quarry workers -
Crane for the incline railroad, by the quarry -
Tracks to bring marble out of quarry -
Blocks of marble for Canary Warf in London, circa 1992 -
Danby Depot -
Marble switch and gantry at the bottom of the incline railroad -
Gantry and crane. Blocks were loaded to go up the the finishing mill in Proctor -
The original Crosby mill -
Danby depot, with the mill in the background -
The incline railroad -
Blocks heading up to Proctor -
Danby depot -
Unloading ties south of Danby Station -
Griffith’s charcoal kilns at works at Danby Depot -
Griffith’s charcoal kilns at works at Danby Depot -
Griffith’s charcoal kilns at works at Danby Depot -
Crosby coal shed -
The lime kiln -
Railroad tracks going into the lime kiln -
Railroad tracks going into the lime kiln -
Fern -
Mort Ackert grading ferns -
Art White -
Johnny Ackert with fern pack -
Inside the cold storage -
Original cold storage facility for ferns which the Ackerts built on the rear of Bond’s Hotel after they purchased it. It faced Mt. Tabor Avenue. The structure was destroyed by fire on February 6, 1937. -
South End Steam sawmill purchased by Emporium Lumber Co. from Silas Griffith Estate -
Griffith’s South End Store -
Lumber ready to ship from South End Mill -
Griffith Box Shop, present site of Crosby grain mill