André Masséna, duc de Rivoli, lithograph by François-Séraphin Delpech, after a portrait by Nicolas-Eustache Maurin, 19th century. (from Biblioteque Nationale Paris)

Andre Massena - from Wikipedia

Who was he?

click here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Mass%C3%A9na

Russell Atwater, Joseph York - 1818

Ezekiel Colburn, John Stone, Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, Joseph York, D.C Judson

Aaron Cowls, Ruth, Lemuel Haskill, Jeremiah Van Rensselaer

St. Lawrence Gazette - Published in Ogdensburg - 1818

High School

Massena High School

Massena High School from Bob White's Collection - he says" Based on the parked automobiles, this picture was taken circa 1952. This school (photo taken across Bridges Avenue) was attended by both my father and me. The original part of the school was built for $600,000. In 1924, my father was in the first high school class to graduate from this building. Our family moved back to Massena in 1956. My older sister went to this school for her last 2 years of high school, and graduated in 1958. I went to junior high there from 1956 through 1958, and for the first half of my freshman year in the fall of 1958. For that year, the crowded school had gone to half sessions (some students went in the morning, others in the afternoon). In early 1959 the new high school was finished, and this school continued to be used as a junior high school. So my dad was in the first high school class to use the building and I was in the last. Today the building is gone, and the area is a park."

Municipal Tennis Courts - Massena HS

Massena High School 1908

Massena HS 1910

High School

Massena HS 1912

Massena HS

Massena HS Baseball Team - early 1900s

Canton-Massena Football Championship Game 1912

Massena Football Team 1923 from Bob White's Collection

Washington School

Massena Center School - Cross on School

Kauffmann Department Store 1911

Massena Observer Jan 26, 1899

ME Church 1907

ME Church

ME Church & Rectory

Catholic Church

Catholic Church & Rectory 1907

Catholic Church

RC Church

Congregational Church - 1930s

Baptist Church 1906

Baptist Church from Bob White's Collection - probably around 1915

St. John's Episcopal Church & Rectory

Episcopal Church and Parsonage from Bob White's collection

St John's 1909

St. John's Episcopal Church

Motel Oral

Pine Terrace Motel

Diamond Door Restaurant

Village Motel

Long Sault Rapids from Ontario

Long Sault Rapids Below Massena

Algerian through the Long Sault Rapids about 1910

Long Sault Rapids as seen from R&O Steamer while being carried through the Lower Rapids

Long Sault Rapids around 1906

Shooting Long Sault Rapids

Rapids Queen - Long Sault

Long Sault Rapids (US to the Right, Canada to the left)

Long Sault Rapids

Skyview of Massena

Flying North over Massena

St Lawrence River 191

Card also in Bob White's collection

Suburban Motel 1950s

Main Street Looking North

Main Street Looking North - W.H. Hodges Dry Goods, Carpets, Wall Paper, Men's, Boy's, Children's Clothing

St. Lawrence Inn at end of street

This photograph comes from Bob White's collection. He writes, " this is really a photograph, not a post card. On the back, my father has written, “From right to left: Hodges, Clark Hardware, Gisers Bakery, Patterson Grocery, Westcott’s with Runions Photograph Studio up stairs, and St Lawrence Inn facing. The photo appears to be taken before Main Street was paved in 1914. In the 1950s and early 1960s Clark Hardware occupied the building that is Hodges Dry Goods in the picture. In the summer of 1961 I worked for the owner, Mr. E. B. Crosbie who was probably a man in his 80s at the time. He taught me how to stoke the coal furnace that heated the building."

Per Bob White, "On the left, you see the same buildings as in Post Card above. On the back, Dad had written, “Main St., looking No. from bridge - circa 1912”.

St. Lawrence Republican 1880

Massena Observer Oct 4, 1894

Norwood News Oct 18, 1910

Main Street

Main Street 1906 - McNutty's (Mc Nulty's?) Grocery

Bob White also had this post card in his collection.

Main Street 1908 Looking South

Main Street East Side Looking South from Bob White's collection

First National Bank on left - Main Street Looking South - 1910

Main Street Looking South 1918

First National Bank of Massena 1920s - William F. White also had this postcard in his collection. Per Bob White: The IOOF was organized in 1904. Main Street does not looked paved. If that is true, the photo was taken prior to 1914.

West Side of Main Street

Main Street

Main Street - Strand Theatre - 1930s

Main Street - Strand Theater

Main Street

Main Street 1955

Schine Theater Playing "The Blue Angel" & "A Private Affair"

Massena Main Street - JC Penny's on the left

from Bob White's collection

Main Street - "Joan Fontain...Ivy"

J J Newberry Co.

Newberry's - 1942

St. Lawrence Club

Flood - Butter Nut Bread Truck

(Butter Nut Bread Truck, Puritan Clothing, Bowling & Billiards, Boston Restaurant, White's Hotel, Ice Cream Sign)

Flood - People's 5 and 10 Cent Store

Flood - 1917 - from William F White's Collection of Postcards

It appears Massena has had a couple floods:

Norwood News Aug 5, 1931

Mill

Pine Grove - 1910

Pine Grove School

Pine Grove School 1915

Pine Grove School - 1912 - from Bob White's Collection

Massena Observer 1977

(Reprint from March 12, 1908)

1913 - Elm Circle

1915 - Elm Circle

Massena Grasse River 1906

Grasse River in early 1900s

St. Lawrence Plaindealer July 16, 1939

Man on Ice Jam 1905

1911 Motor Ice Boat invented by Floyd Carter - on St. Lawrence River

Massena - Chase Mills Train in Chase Mills early 1900s

Grand Army of the Republic Parade 1906

Massena's Civil War Soldier Monument

Parade

Parade - Western Union on left, White's Hotel on Right

St Lawrence Inn

St Lawrence Inn 1909

St. Lawrence Inn from Bob White's Collection

St. Lawrence Inn

St Lawrence Inn & the car- Massena Transportation Company

Town Hall

Town Hall - from Bob White's Collection

Massena Opera House from Bob White's Collection dated around 1910. The Opera House became the Town Hall.

Town Hall

Lift Bridge & Forebay - early 1900s

Lift Bridge

Barnhart Island Beach

St. Lawrence Republican 1827

Fairview - Barnhart Island

1901 - 1930

Massena Observer - Sept. 1903

Frank A. Barnhart, Proprietor

Grass River Louisville

Gouverneur Press 1922

Ogdensburg Advance - 1958

River - Massena

Hyde Factory Massena (Judson L Hyde)

Hyde Creamery - from Bob White's Collection

From Bob -It is labeled “Hyde’s Creamery”. There is a building across the street from the leftmost creamery building in Post Cars#10 that is not there in the Hyde’s card. There are utility lines in both pictures, tho harder to see in #10. From “The History of Massena” – “In 1896, fire destroyed the main building of the company, which had changed its name to the Diamond Creamery, and two years later, a new building was erected.” The book also says that Judson L. Hyde and his son, Fred J. Hyde established it on Center Street in 1880. So it was probably Hyde’s Creamery from 1880 until 1896, and popularly called that afterwards. Prior to 1902, this was the only major establishment in Massena. My great-grandfather, Carl W. Richards (1867-1942), worked as a butter and cheese maker at this creamery in the 1890s and 1900s.

From Bob White's collection - creamery on the left, the structure on the right would be on Water Street

Note that the name has changed from Hyde Factory to Diamond Creamery and Massena is spelled wrong but the picture is the same as the post card above. From Bob White: it "is probably taken from the Grass River Bridge. But the post card company is from Remsen, NY did not know how to spell Massena. It has no writing on the back. I don’t know the date. It was long gone in the 1950s."

Simpson, McIntire & Co. Creamery

Norwood News Sept 17, 1912

Diamond Creamery

Massena Observer - May 23, 1907

Massena Observer 1968

Mica Plant

Ogdensburg Journal April 8, 1936

Possibly the construction of the Mica Plant on the Dam of the Grass River?

Ogdensburg Journal Aug 13, 1934

Businesses on the West Side

Nelson's Store 1905

Massena and Louisville - names on 1800 Census (dated May 1801)

This drawing is from an old book I bought at a garage sale called Popular Science Reader by James Monteith copyright 1881 by AS Barnes & Company New York & Chicago. Artist signature is HyS

Lachine Rapids are/were close to Montreal

Big John and Party Shooting the Lachine Rapids

Lachine Rapids - 1895 - Rand McNally

Algerian in the Lachines

Sovereign in the Lachines

Spartan navigating the Lachine Rapids - late 1800s

St. Lawrence Republican Aug 2, 1895

Ogdensburg Advance 1900

Corinthian 1865-1892

Canal Bridge at Aluminum Plant

Canal Bridge - 1920s

Andrew Street Park 1940

Andrews Park

Andrews Street Park from Bob White's Collection - 1937...he says, "The park was built in 1933 and renamed Memorial Park in 1951"

Atlantic Gas Station 1959

Babbling Brook

Barge Canal 1907

Dup from Bob White's Collection - He says, "Construction of the power canal began in 1897 and was completed in 1903. The power provided was used for the town, but mainly to run the operations at Alcoa. Ongoing dredging was required to maintain the canal."

Dredging Power Canal

Canal Dredge - 1911

Canal Dredge

Canal Dredge 1913 - New Dredge Capacity -40,000 cu yds Earth Daily

Canal Intake 1910

Canal Intake 1908

Intake

Canoeing on Grass River 1910

Grasse River & Homes early 1900s

Bob White also had this picture in his collection.

Dr. Mason's Residence 1920

Dr. Mason's Home

Massena Observer May 12, 1952

G.W. Ball Residence

Masssena Observer May 22, 1952

East Orvis St.

West Orvis Street 1915

Main & Orvis 1915 (street looks flooded)

North Main Street

Grass River Bridge 1910

Grass River Bridge

Bridge - possibly during construction

Stereoview - Grass River Bridge

Massena Springs, Highway Bridge

Grass River Bridge

Bob White also had this picture in his collection. He says, "The postmark is 1916. The Grass River Bridge would be immediately behind the photographer in the previous post card. This iron bridge was replaced by a concrete bridge in 1929."

De Grasse River 1905

Grasse River Bridge 1930s

Bridge over the Grass River - people in a boat from Bob White's collection

Grasse River Bridge late 1930s

Bridge

"Racket" River Bridge Massena Springs

Raquette River Bridge from Bob White's Collection

Dam and Bridge - Massena

Massena River Dam

Grass River Dam from Bob White's Collection - he says, " the dam is not far downstream (east) from the Main Street Bridge. This picture was taken from the north shore looking at the buildings on Water Street."

Grasse River Dam

Company Houses (before telephone poles)

New Dwellings at the Pines (with telephone poles)

Brunswick Hotel

Massena Observer 1901

Massena Observer April 16, 1903

Massena Observer Aug 18, 1904

Massena Observer Aug 1916

Ogdensburg Daily Journal Feb 22, 1859

United States Hotel - H H White Proprietor - Massena Springs - 1858

Erected in 1848 by Benjamin Phillips - burned down in 1871. Hatfield House then built. Click here to read more:

http://history.rays-place.com/ny/massena-ny.htm

Benjamin Phillips - War 1812:

http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/state/1812/l-p/phillips-pierson.html

Phillips Street

(note: Benjamin Phillips is on Massena's 1820 & 1840 Census)

Massena Observer - Sept 13, 1977

United States Hotel 1856

Massena Observer Aug 19, 1971

From Bob White - this a large photograph of Massena Springs with the Racquette River in the foreground and the Hatfield House against the skyline in the upper right. The picture is difficult to date; there are no automobiles, or horses and buggies, or even bicycles. There are several people in the photo, but too far away to determine the period of their clothing. The Hatfield House was constructed in

1872 on the site of the United States Hotel which had burned the year before. The Hatfield House could accommodate 250 guests. It stood on the northwest corner of Main and West Hatfield Streets.

In 1932, both the Hatfield House and the White's Hotel were destroyed by fire. The cribs in the river look like they might have supported something in the past (maybe a wooden covered bridge), but they don't look sturdy enough to have supported an iron bridge. An iron bridge was built in 1877 at Massena Springs, but probably would be off to the right of the photo where Main Street crosses the river.

United States Hotel

St. Lawrence Plaindealer April 19, 1860

Massena Springs, Hatfield House

Hatfield House & Smith House

Hatfield House

Hatfield House 1907

Hatfield Hotel ? 1915

Massena Observer - Sept 4, 1984

Massena Springs Bath House

White's Hotel 1875 from Bob White's collection

White's Hotel

1870 Massena Census lists:

Henry B White, age 43, Hotel Keeper, born Vt

Caroline, 41, Housekeeper

Jennie, 17

Massena Observer Sept 17, 1903

Main Street & White's Hotel

White's Hotel 1908

White's Hotel 1926 - Bob White says this hotel burned in 1932

White's Hotel & Isadore David Kriff Clothing

Massena Observer March 1928

Bentley House

1870 Massena Census lists:

John S Bentley, age 45, Hotel Keeper, born NY

Mary J, 40, Housekeeper

Cynthia T, 18, Teacher

Emily, 15

Clarence, 18, Domestic Servant

Massena Observer May 31, 1977

Ft. Covington Sun 1888

Harrowgate House

Harrigate House (Spelled Differently)

Massena Observer 1961

Massena Observer 1975

St. Lawrence Republican June 19, 1855

Massena Springs, RR Depot

Massena Springs Station from Bob White's collection

Massena Springs Train

Massena Springs Train Station 1905

1856 Massena Springs - Spring & Bath House

Harpers New Monthly Magazine

Massena Springs

Stereoview - Massena Springs

Massena Springs

Massena Springs 1907

Massena Springs, Gazebo

Massena Springs Gazebo 1906

Gazebo

Ladies and Gents at Massena Springs - notice the jugs on the ground

Well at Massena Springs

Massena Springs - late 1800s early 1900s - very early photo....

Massena Springs

Massena Springs and River

Massena Springs - Racquette River Bridge

Smith House - Massena Springs - 1907

Massena Observer Jan 22, 1985

Cathedral of Elms - Massena Springs - 1910

Roosevelt Bridge

Roosevelt Bridge - From Bob White - dated 1938 - per Bob this bridge is a few miles east of Massena Village.

First Span Roosevelt Bridge Across St. Lawrence River to Cornwall - around 1920

One Section of the International Bridge Cornwall-Rooseveltown near Massena - from Bob White's Collection

Roosevelt International Bridge

Massena Cornwell NY Ottawa RR Bridge

Cornwall Bridge Destroyed

From Bob White: The Cornwall Bridge collapsed in 1898 and there was an article in the October 1, 1898 issue of Scientific American.

Massena Observer, Thursday, September 8, 1898

Reynolds Aluminum Plant - 1955

Chevrolet Plant 1955

Massena Docks 1910

Cline's Willow Tree Farm

International Park Massena

Picture also in Bob White's collection

Sirius - Massena Point

Sirius

Steamer Sirius - Captain Cline's Boat - Hotel Fairview - Barnhart's

The Sirus was built by John and William Cline. It was one of many boats built by the Clines who were residents of Long Sault Island, engaged in farming. saw mill, boat building, ferrying, shipping...The family first came to Massena in the early 1800s.