Horses in Business
Ray Donadio delivering milk for Warren Sanitary Milk Company in 1954.
A badly damaged photo of a horse and wagon run by Thomas Madden at some time before the turn of the century as Excelsior Dairy.
H.C. Mines and the Brown-Fordyce Dairy wagon.
Wilson's Dairy delivering milk on Linden Avenue in Niles.
Glass bottle used by Madden-Hubbard Milk Company.
Many old-timers will remember this building as having housed the Madden-Hubbard Milk Company many years ago.
The H.F. Rider grocery store was located near the corner of East Federal and the west side if Vienna Avene. The horse and buckboard were used to pick up and deliver goods to customers and restock the store.
1898 photo of Holloway's Livery & Undertaking which was located on East Park Avenue in Niles.
1916 - A. DeJute & Sons. L to R: Steve Ratchie, Bill Bridgens, Frank DeJute and Angeline DeJute.
Sandman's Draying service was a fore-runner of trucking companies in Niles.
President McKinley's first grade teacher in a carriage in front of the Allison Hotel at the intersection of North Main Street and Park Avenue.
Holloway's 1894 "Black Maria" that provided the final journey for many of Niles' dearly departed.
View of a horsedrawn fire engine standing on State Street.
George Swegan started an ice house and used to cut blocks of ice from the Mosquito Creek and deliver it in horse-drawn carts like the one pictured.
