The Rural Settlement Of Brasher Iron Works - Part 2

I was taking a driving tour of the tiny settlement of Brasher Iron Works, once a mining and iron processing center for local bog iron. These days it's just a nice, rural community surrounded by state forest lands:

I passed by nice homes beneath big White Pines:

And old barns:

This house looked modern and comfortable:

The wooden seat on this front porch looked mighty inviting - but in the summertime, not in this weather:

I loved the ornate trim on this home - and there, once again, where the sinewy trees I suspected were Locusts:

A nice, compact home with a double garage:

An attached garage for avoiding the worst of winter's weather plus an old hand pump which, I suspected, might be functioning:

I passed by the Brasher Iron Works Cemetery:

And an old barn built of stone and rough cut lumber:

I was almost out of town when I passed this home:

 

I considered this bridge over the St. Regis River to be the end of Brasher Iron Works. I stopped on the bridge to watched the freight train passing by on an adjacent bridge and once again a few hundred feet later when I found the Railroad Crossing Warning barriers down and flashing: