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