Charlotte Historical Photos- Farm Photos

From photos compiled by the Charlotte Land Trust with the generous loan of images by Charlotte residents.
Produced by Perceptions, Inc. 2003
More photo discs available at the Charlotte Library

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   Cutting Wood


 
 Oak Log on the Way to the Mill
 


 
 Building A New Barn 1914
 

 
 Barn-building



Ready to Spread Fertilizer

 

 
Plowing with Sam, Jane and Jessie


 
   A Three Horse Hitch to a Disk Harrow
 


1922



Spike Toothed (Smoothing) Harrow
 


Planting Grain 1923


 
   Sharpening the Cutter Bar for the Hay Mowing Machine
 

 
Mowing Hay with Skippy Skipwith of NYC and Lester Bell


Raking Hay  1923



Bringing in the Hay
 



Making the Hay Stack  1943
 


 
Taking Milk to the Creamery-- Summer



Harvester with a Shock of Grain



 Field of Shocks of Grain

 


 
  Thrashing 1923

 



The corn and sunflowers grew tall in those days.
 


 
   Cutting Corn 1921 R. E. Whalley
 

 
  Filling a Silo 1923



Drilling a Water Well
 

 
 
When the Windmill Breaks


 
   Frank Mack's Ice Cutting Machine
  



Harold Timms at Elevator, Stanton Bessette and Phil McNeil