Taken 12/06 by Scannerman
Little Falls Gravel Plant, Herkimer County


'The Pierce Stone Company east of Little Falls began in 1921 and worked into the 1930s furnishing crushed stone for surfacing roads. The plant was built on an outcropping on an almost-vertical hillside. Huge rectangular silos were perched on concrete walls over two rail tracks; gravity-dump loading chutes filled 20 railroad hopper cars at once. Directly north of present-day Route 5 is the quarry where the raw rock came from.' - description from Scannerman.



Scannerman writes "This is one of the damdest things I've ever seen made out of concrete--what a nightmare is must have been to work on this thing, all by brute human and animal power, maybe with a steam crane... The above picture is looking down into the two west silos--for lack of a better term. A railroad spur ran underneath each silo, and 10 hopper cars would fit under each one. There is an identical set of silos on the other side of the building."

Edited overlay of previous photo showing where various parts of the gravel plant would have been situated.


Top view map of the parts of the quarry as it would have looked when running.


Picture of the plant as it was still being built.

Taken on 04/12/11 by CharlieB
Ontario County, barn within the city of Canandaigua, in good condition

Taken on 04/12/11 by CharlieB
Interior shots of the barn within the city of Canandaigua

Taken on 04/12/11 by CharlieB
CharlieB writes that the last shot "is of another abandoned structure found within the barn. It too, is in good shape. I think it meets your criteria."

Taken on 04/28/11
Unknown small structure off from Game Farm Road, Brownville, Jefferson County, as suggested by Eric H.  Looks like it may have been a bridge or small dam.  Anyone know?
Close-up;

Taken on 05/10/11
Card Road, Jefferson County.  A barn goes with this but it looked like it was in use for cows and possibly hay or something like that so photos were not taken of that.  The lawn is mowed around the house but it looks abandoned.

Taken on 05/10/11
Middleton Road, Black River, Jefferson County, going down the big hill.  House, and two buildings.

Taken on 05/10/11
Front and back of the other building that goes along with the previous house and building.

Taken on 05/10/11
Middleton Road, Black River, Jefferson County, going down the big hill. 



On 10/24/11 Ed Pelkey writes "My great-grandfather Ephileth Crain
built this water tank for Middleton's farm. The tank is over 100 years old."
On 2/2/13 Paul Perry wrote "This water tank was built to supply water to the Middleton Farms at the bottom of the big hill. Probably built by Mr. DC Middleton."