NEB&W Guide to Port Henry, NY - Not Modeled

Last Update: 2008-09-22

Port Henry Table of Contents
Photo Gallery Table of Contents

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• The main street was located up a bit from the lake. (We don't have room to model this.)
  • [Business district c. 1900.]
  • [Business district c. 1900.]
  • [Broad Street c. 1930's.]
  • [Looking toward Broad St. c. 1940's.]
  • [Another view c. 1940's.]
  • [Store c. 1973 by Tony Steele.]
  • [Stone Presbyterian Church.]
  • [Bank.]
  • [Aerial view, looking south. The church and Witherbee-Sherman office are visible in the background.]
  • [Aerial view, looking south. (Probably same photo, different postcard.)]
  • [Aerial view, looking south. Better photo. You can also see the end of the wood trestle complex.]
  • [Aerial view from atop one of the furnaces, looking north.]

• Just around the hill and north the depot was a small peninsular where a power house was built in 1910. Apparently the power was sent up to Mineville to power the mines. I think the track that ran out to provide coal was also used to fuel and supply steamboats. (I understand there was a ferry that operated from here across to Vermont before the Crown Pt. bridge was built.)
  • [The "new" power house.]
  • [Another angle.]
  • [Postcard looking north.]
  • [Postcard looking east.]
  • [Postcard looking south.]
  • [Bigger view.]
  • [Photo looking south. From Jim Shaughnessy's Delaware & Hudson.]
  • [Close-up.]
  • [Postcard from further up the line, looking south. Note the tunnel, which I think was later daylighted.]
  • [Sanborn map.]

• Further north was a picturesque boat repair facility.
  • [Postcard c. WWI. (It looks like a large barn.)]
  • [Postcard, looking south. I think that is the boat repair in the lower left.]
  • [View c. 2002.]
  • [Close-up.]

• Postcard views, I think, south of the village.
  • [Postcard.]
  • [Postcard looking north.]

See our Layout Guide for Port Henry and the history of Port Henry iron making.

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