
Taken on 05/14/08
Part of the Ryor's Turkey Farm, on a small dead-end road behind the
Calcium Post Office, Town of Leray
There is also a connected wooden rear section,
larger then the part shown here but obscured by trees - I couldn't get
a good shot of it. Another large unconnected barn or building
has previously been demolished. Now owned by Millsite Family
Adventures, Inc. of Carthage.
Suggested
by Kathy, who wanted to know what this building was (and so
did I).


*Thanks to the members of the
JeffCoWebboard.com
(WWR, Ringoffire436, tree68, OddJob, inspector71, dirtyhands, magnum,
BryGuy) for the help on finding what this was. 'Dirtyhands'
writes that from the architecture it looks to be 1920's. *Chris writes "Hi
there - loved the picture! I used to live in the house directly across from the
turkey farm (1985-1988). My parents bought our house from the Ryors when we
first got stationed at Fort Drum. The bldg you are looking at was the view I had
out my bedroom window. It was in a little better shape back then, but just
slightly. At the time, there was a couple and their baby that lived in the
upstairs floor of this bldg, which I remember to be the offices of the turkey
farm itself (I think they were related to the Ryors somehow) - there used to be
several large turkey barns out back with wide gradual sloping roofs that were
fun to jump off of when the snow was deep. I learned to parallel park in that
parking lot right there :) Thanks for the memories!" |

Taken on 05/14/08
Donnattburg Bridge, over the Independence River in Lewis County,
Otter Creek/Glenfield area, Donnattburg Road. Built in 1902 and long-closed.
The small building in the right edge of the picture
is a Hudson River Regulating District gauging station. Suggested
by Meagan M.

 Thanks to Will H. for the
correction on the area.
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Taken on 05/14/08
Looking straight onto the bridge.
You can still walk over the bridge, at your own
peril...

 *From
Dawn in Atlanta
Ga: "I grew up
on Donnattburg road from age 8-18. Memories flooded me when I saw your pic of
the bridge. It used to be functional when I lived on the road there.. in fact
that whole road was a dirt road for years.. then they paved it to the bridge.
When I went to college in 83..they closed the bridge and the pass to Austin
Road... eliminated a great short cut!
I used to sit on that bridge and read and throw rocks into the river." |

Taken on 05/14/08
The 1902 plaque
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Taken on 05/14/08
The Independence River as seen from the bridge.
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Taken on 05/14/08
View of the concrete work under the bridge, deteriorating

Some sort of benchmark attached to the concrete of
the bridge, though I could not find a listing of it from the USGS.
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Taken on 05/14/08
Old abandoned crypt (or vault) at the Maple Hill Cemetery on County
Route 160 (Middle Road), Rutland Area near Watertown.
This is where they kept the bodies during the
winter months when the ground was too frozen to bury them.
This kept the bodies cool yet not frozen.


*From
comac1103 (via
Flickr.com): "Marc this is a
cool shot; that board keeping the door closed is weird are they trying
to keep someone or something in." *From Leo Alen (via
Flickr.com): "that door is so
inviting" |

Taken on 05/14/08
Another view
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Taken on 05/14/08
Closer shot.
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Taken on 05/14/08
The open doorway into the crypt.
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Taken on 05/14/08
Inside the small crypt.
Yea, kinda creepy. This looks like it has
not been used for many, many years. Some junk is piled inside
the crypt, but the cemetery itself is well-maintained and still used.
The walls of the crypt were covered with some sort of masonry work, and
chipping off in some places but still in fairly good
condition. The floor may have once been bricked,
now they are piled and jumbled all over.

 *From
chocolatepoint (via
Flickr.com): "Very cool photo.
I've never seen inside a crypt, so tanks for sharing! Nice webpage too
with all the abandoned sites up your way." |

Unrelated
really, but I
thought this was interesting also. In the cemetery, I
happened across what looks like old grave marker stones made of just
flat stones, no trace of markings or that there ever were any markings.
These struck me as very similar to the crude stones in an unmarked
cemetery off from Route 37 between the Knowlesville Road and the
Military Road.

 *Ingred writes "According to
Byron Bowen's History of Lewis County book, these flagstones in cemeteries are
for the Native Americans who were buried there after the settlers arrived." |

Taken on 05/21/08
The old train trestle off from Water Street, over to Sewalls Island,
Watertown
Bridge
and location suggested by AJR II.
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Taken on 05/23/08
Another shot from down the street, also old gears and
workings. From a dam or other waterworks?
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Taken on 05/23/08
Closer pic showing workings from the last pic.


Map
of the location, with markers and descriptions. |

Taken on 06/10/08
Remains of an old bridge in Chaumont. Possibly it was a
railroad trestle bridge? Suggested
by Don D.


*Jill writes - "You are correct, the railroad used to run across that portion of
the Chaumont River. The tracks continue into Limerick, and Brownville. The DANC
waterline actually follows the old railroad tracks." |

Taken on 06/10/08
Close-up of the bank shown in the left of the previous picture.
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Taken on 06/10/08
Close-up of the bank shown in the left of the previous picture.


*Lloyd writes "The large pier on the left in this picture once supported a swing
span. The bridge was abandoned by the New York Central railroad in the early
1950's and removed about 15 years later." |
 
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