Photos

Old photographs, postcards and new pictures of Sodus Point. Each photo links to the page it belongs to.

Nowadays, the one remaining outer pier light is one of the most photographed spots in Sodus Point.Courtesy of Edith FarringtonThe Story of the Pier Lights →
1906 Passenger Train departing Sodus Point and going by the Bunk House.Courtesy of Edith FarringtonRailroad Y and Bunk House →
Old Postcards →
Courtesy of Bruce FarringtonBay Shore House →
Sodus Point Bait Shop (late 1970s) during 1st ESLO Derby.Courtesy of Bob Chase Jr.Sodus Point Bait Shop – late 1970s →
Coal Trestle / John J. Rammacher – 1941 →
Team Apache washed up on shore after sticking the wave.Courtesy of Tom Plantz1986 Powerboat Race off of Sodus Point →
The Harris House Circa 1910 with its distinctive Windmill. Photo courtesy of John Powell from his book "Old Postcards & Photos of Sodus Point" page 167Courtesy of John PowellHarris House →
Smelt at the Point. 1962 Photo courtesy of Bob Chase, Jr, From left to right: Oscar Fuerst, Bob Chase Sr., John DeVey and Bill Koush.Courtesy of Bob Chase, JrSmelting – 1950s and 1960s →
British Invasion of Sodus Point Reenactment (1994) →
Courtesy of Bob Chase, Jr.Looking over the Bay →
Photo from the Collection of Naomi Sill TaylorE A Button General Store – 1907 →

Photo sets

The 2024 Solar Eclipse

Photos · 2024

Sodus Point Automobile Club – 1919

Photos · 1919

Camping Near Charles Point Circa 1914

Photos · 1914

Old Postcards

Photos

Trolley in the Snow

Photos

The Day an Airplane Crashed Into Sodus Bay

Photos · 1951

Coal Trestle / John J. Rammacher – 1941

Photos · 1941

Coal Trestle Reconstruction – 1927

Photos · 1927

Then and now

Every photo, newest first

Engraving of men and horses harvesting ice blocks on a frozen lake, with large ice houses and a train behind — Ice Harvesting

Ice harvesting tools labeled ice saw, ice tongs, ice gaff and ice pick — Ice Harvesting

The daughter of Dr. Willam N. Lummis, born in Sodus Point, New Yor. She wrote a three-volume book, WOMEN OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (1848), "derived from original sources," followed by many other books, including DOMESTIC HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (1850), WATCHING SPIRITS (1851), PIONEER WOMEN OF THE WEST (1852), QUEENS OF AMERICAN SOCIETY (1865), and THE COURT CIRCLES OF THE REPUBLIC, OR THE BEAUTIES AND CELEBRITIES OF THE NATION (1869). — Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet

Horse pulling an ice-cutting plow across a frozen, grid-scored bay as men work, houses on the snowy shore behind — Ice Harvesting on Sodus Bay (1835–1939)

Weathered gravestone in memory of Asher Warner, who fell in the Battle of Sodus, with a small American flag — Battle of Sodus Point – War of 1812 (The Men)

Interpretive sign titled 'Old Sodus Lighthouse' with a diagram of the light mechanism and maps, beside potted flowers — Old Sodus Lighthouse Plaque

Plaque headed 'Site of 1825 Keeper's Dwelling House' with three paragraphs of history text — Lighthouse Keeper’s House Plaque

Plaque titled 'Site of 1825 Keeper's Dwelling House', with an old photo of a light tower and house beside text — Lighthouse Keeper’s House Plaque

Charter Boats mural: white cabin cruisers tied along wooden docks on blue water, a wooded bluff beyond — Charter Boats Mural

Lighthouse Mural: painting of a stone keeper's house with lantern tower on a lawn, a bay, bluffs and sailboats behind — Lighthouse Mural

Steamship Era mural: a white passenger steamer trailing smoke past a white pier lighthouse with a red base — Steamship Era Mural

Cracked tintype portrait of a bearded man in a cap, bow tie and dark suit, seated beside a draped table — Underground Railroad in Sodus Point

Wickham Cemetery sign above a plaque about William Wickham and his wife Catherine, a red building behind — Captain Wickham Plaque

Interpretive panel 'Cobblestone Architecture: Sodus Area Cobblestones' with a drawing of a cobblestone house and a map — Cobblestone Interpretive Panel

Asher Warner plaque: a boulder with a bronze tablet set in a bed of white tulips and blue hyacinths — In 1927, the General Swift Chapter, Daughters of 1812, placed two boulders with bronze plaques at Sodus Point,…Asher Warner Plaque

1812 Peace Garden plaque on a boulder: 'On the brow of this hill took place the Battle of Sodus Point' — Located at 8440 Bay Street, Sodus Point, New York on the south side of the road in the…1812 Peace Garden Plaque

Battle of Sodus Point mural: men in straw hats fire muskets at British soldiers under a Union Jack at night — Battle of Sodus Point Mural

Framed sepia portrait of Captain William Wickham, an elderly man seated in a wooden chair holding a cane — Captain William Wickham

Native American Fishing Mural: a man spears fish from a birch-bark canoe as others paddle below tall clay cliffs — Native American Fishing Mural

Sign headlined 'World War II POW Camp in Sodus Point' with an old camp photo, mounted before a wooden fence — WW II POW Camp Plaque

Hand-colored engraving of a Shaker worship service, men and women dancing with raised hands as onlookers sit on benches — Shakers At Sodus Bay

'Wickham Cemetery' sign with a text plaque on posts beneath large trees, small American flags at its base — Captain William Wickham

Gravestone reading 'William Wickham, Capt, US Navy, War of 1812' beside a small American flag in the grass — Captain William Wickham

Engraving of the Battle of Sodus Point: waterfront buildings burning at night as a boatload of men rows offshore — Battle of Sodus Point – War of 1812

Arch Merrill in a suit and tie, cigar in mouth, typing at a manual typewriter — August 5, 1894 – July 15, 1974Arch Merrill

Book engraving: an enslaved man seizes an overseer by the throat and takes his whip as a dog lunges — Slaves in Sodus Point

Title page of 'Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman' by Austin Steward, Rochester, 1857 — Slaves in Sodus Point

Engraved portrait of a bearded man in a dark suit and bow tie, signed 'Austin Steward' beneath — Slaves in Sodus Point

Painting, 'Sodus Point Coal Trestle with Coalship Fontana': a freighter docked at the trestle as trains steam above — Coal Trestle

Collage: rusted spear head, sketch of a kneeling man raising it on a beach, Viking ship and a man's portrait — Viking Spear Head

Hand-drawn map of the shore between Lake Ontario and Sodus Bay, with the coal trestle site marked near Route 14 — Coal Trestle

Painting of a white pier lighthouse with a red top beside a large white passenger steamer trailing smoke — Steamship Era

Digital illustration of a Viking ship's quilted sail displaying a rusted spear head, with a dragon prow and shield — Viking Spear Head

Penguin Classics cover of 'The Last of the Mohicans' showing a painted wooded landscape in golden light — James Fenimore Cooper

Mural of canoes below clay cliffs on a gray wall beside an empty wooden frame, with a cross-shaped shadow — Blessing of the Murals

Mural of canoes below clay bluffs on a gray block wall beside an empty wooden frame, a car parked below — Blessing of the Murals

Mural of two people paddling canoes below orange bluffs, mounted on a gray building wall beside an empty frame — Blessing of the Murals

White clapboard church with a cross-topped steeple and red front door against a blue sky — Blessing of the Murals

Snapshot labeled 'Winter' and 'Camp Sodus Point N.Y.': a one-story white frame building surrounded by deep snow — In the spring of 1945 twenty more POWS arrived at the camp.WW II Sodus Point P.O.W Camp

Two snowy views of a cleared camp with sheds and fencing, labeled 'Winter at P/W Camp 1944–1945' — WW II Sodus Point P.O.W Camp

Sodus Point prisoners of war running in a group along a dirt road past a barracks to the soccer field — Sodus Point POWS running to the soccer field. Photo courtesy of Debra Werfelman, From the book “World War…WW II Sodus Point P.O.W CampCourtesy of Debra Werfelman

Long single-file line of men marching along a gravel road while a few men stand watching — WW II Sodus Point P.O.W Camp

Barbed wire strands in front of a clapboard building where several people sit at an outdoor table — WW II Sodus Point P.O.W Camp

Several people working along rows in a freshly tilled field, with vehicles parked at the far edge — WW II Sodus Point P.O.W Camp

Wooden barracks building with a small evergreen and signpost, handwritten 'P.W. Camp Fall of 1944' below — WW II Sodus Point P.O.W Camp

Snapshot labeled 'P.W. Camp Sodus Point' and '1944': white frame cabins among tall trees — WW II Sodus Point P.O.W Camp

Snapshot labeled 'P.W. Camp Sodus Point': small white frame buildings among tall trees along a dirt road — WW II Sodus Point P.O.W Camp

Man standing at the railing of a raised wooden watchtower among trees, with a handwritten summer date — WW II Sodus Point P.O.W Camp