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

Men in hats and uniformed officers gathered around the crumpled wreckage of a small plane in a brushy field — The Day an Airplane Crashed Into Sodus BayCourtesy of Bob Miller

Uniformed officers and onlookers gathered around airplane wreckage in marsh grass, one man bending to examine it — The Day an Airplane Crashed Into Sodus BayCourtesy of Bob Miller

Crowd of men in coats gathered around a small airplane wreck lying in tall marsh grass — The Day an Airplane Crashed Into Sodus BayCourtesy of Bob Miller

Wrecked small Cessna airplane resting on a grassy shore of the bay, two people looking at it — The Day an Airplane Crashed Into Sodus BayCourtesy of Bob Miller

Newspaper clipping headlined 'Bodies Are Finally Recovered After Plane Crash' about a Cessna lost in Sodus Bay — From the April 5th, 1953 Sodus RecordThe Day an Airplane Crashed Into Sodus Bay

Blank bank check of Silvanus J. Macy & Co., Bankers, Sodus Centre, N.Y., No. 251, with an orange stamp — Custom House

Looking down from the coal trestle as a loading chute on cables is lowered into a ship's open cargo hold — Coal Trestle / John J. Rammacher – 1941

Loading chute machinery with an operator's cab, lowered into the open cargo hold of a ship below — Coal Trestle / John J. Rammacher – 1941

Steel loading arm positioned over a ship's open cargo hatch, pilings in the water beyond — Coal Trestle / John J. Rammacher – 1941

Freighter John J. Rammacher seen from above, hatches open, its name painted on the bow and pilothouse — Coal Trestle / John J. Rammacher – 1941

Coal trestle deck with open dumping pits between the rails, a man standing by wooden buildings beyond — Coal Trestle / John J. Rammacher – 1941

Long view down the plank deck and tracks atop the coal trestle, wooden shacks lining both sides — Coal Trestle / John J. Rammacher – 1941

Looking down on a ship's deck as a worker stands by a steel coal chute lowered toward an open hatch — Coal Trestle / John J. Rammacher – 1941

Top deck of the coal trestle, rails ending at a timber bumper and lamppost, with the bay beyond — Coal Trestle / John J. Rammacher – 1941

Looking down on a freighter's open hatches as a coal chute and loader cab hang above, the ship's funnel beyond — Coal Trestle / John J. Rammacher – 1941

Top deck of the coal trestle: tracks over dumping pits beside wooden operator shacks and a loading chute — Coal Trestle / John J. Rammacher – 1941

View down from the coal trestle onto a ship's open hatch, a steel loading chute and an operator's cab — Coal Trestle / John J. Rammacher – 1941

View along the top deck of the coal trestle, rail tracks running between rows of loading machinery with operator cabs — Coal Trestle / John J. Rammacher – 1941

Timber cribs in the water in front of a tall pile driver and a partly built trestle tower — Coal Trestle Reconstruction – 1927Courtesy of Kenneth

Railroad tracks beside an excavated embankment with scattered timbers, a few workers and small buildings beyond — Coal Trestle Reconstruction – 1927Courtesy of Kenneth

Torn-up muddy ground with a curving rail track, smoke and steam rising in the distance — Coal Trestle Reconstruction – 1927Courtesy of Kenneth

Three men in caps on railroad track by stacked timbers and a coal pile, a water tank and buildings behind — Coal Trestle Reconstruction – 1927Courtesy of Kenneth

Tall timber framework under construction with a lattice crane boom rising from its top, beams stacked in front — Coal Trestle Reconstruction – 1927Courtesy of Kenneth

Steam locomotive puffing smoke as it hauls a loaded car along curving tracks through a dug-out cut — Coal Trestle Reconstruction – 1927Courtesy of Kenneth

Railroad tracks with piles of heavy timbers, a metal shed at left and small houses on the rise beyond — Coal Trestle Reconstruction – 1927Courtesy of Kenneth

Crane atop the coal trestle's timber framework during reconstruction, with stacks of lumber below — Coal Trestle Reconstruction – 1927Courtesy of Kenneth

Timber framework of the coal trestle under construction, a crane boom raised and workmen among stacked beams — Coal Trestle Reconstruction – 1927Courtesy of Kenneth

Workmen standing on timber framing over the water among rows of pilings during trestle reconstruction — Coal Trestle Reconstruction – 1927Courtesy of Kenneth

Work crews laying and carrying rails and ties for new railroad tracks across muddy ground — Coal Trestle Reconstruction – 1927Courtesy of Kenneth

Photo back inscribed 'Arlene Ternoois, World War II grease monkey on PRR at Sodus Point', with an Army examiner stamp — Arlene Ternoois – PRR Grease Monkey

Arlene Ternoois in work clothes standing beside the wheels of a large steam locomotive — Arlene Ternoois – PRR Grease MonkeyCourtesy of Nancy Karasinski One

Cover of 'Pennsylvania Railroad's Elmira Branch' by Bill Caloroso, showing a train beyond a steel truss bridge — Pennsy RR Elmira Branch

Old newspaper item reporting that Dr. Ellet found iodine and bromine in the water of Sodus, Wayne Co. — Salt Works School House

Bronze grave marker for Otto R. Grosz, PFC, US Army, World War I, 1889-1976, two pink flowers laid across it — Lest we forget…..Photo taken Memorial Day 2019 by Todd DeWispelaereWorld War 1 Memorial

Tintype in a gilt case of a woman holding a baby beside a standing child, on a Newport family chart — Civil War Letter from James A. PotterCourtesy of Susan Wallace

Back of a Camp Beech-Wood postcard with a child's note: 'Dear Mom + Dad, This is where we go boating' — Camp BeechwoodCourtesy of Susan Ketterer Coco

Postcard of campers paddling red canoes on a calm, reed-lined creek under a clear sky — Camp BeechwoodCourtesy of Susan Ketterer Coco

Back of a Camp Beech-Wood postcard with a handwritten note: 'Dear Linda, This is the pool we swim in' — Camp BeechwoodCourtesy of Susan Ketterer Coco

Postcard of the Camp Beechwood pool, swimmers in red caps along lane ropes and two people on a bench — Camp BeechwoodCourtesy of Susan Ketterer Coco

Sodus Bay Junior Sailing Association clubhouse with people gathered on the lawn and a small sailboat in front — Sodus Bay Junior Sailing Association

Large group of children and instructors posed by flagpoles at a marina, sailboat masts behind — Sodus Bay Junior Sailing Association

Fleet of small single-sail dinghies racing on choppy water, each with one sailor, a church steeple on the far shore — Sodus Bay Junior Sailing Association

Blue and gold marker: 'Black Community – Freed slaves & freedom seekers lived and farmed in this area' — Black Community Plaque / MarkerPhoto by Jim Wood

Jeffrey Genovese on scaffolding painting the 'Nature's Children' sun sign on a yellow shop, a small girl at the door — 1987 Photo of Nature's Children. Photo from Joy DeRycke. The little 6 year old girl is Kristy Mapes…Nature’s Children 1987

Colonel Peregrine Fitzhugh's weathered white gravestone, its inscription beginning 'In Memory of Peregrine Fitzhugh' — Colonel Peregrine Fitzhugh's grave stone in Sodus Rural Cemetery. Photo from Find A Grave.Colonel Peregrine Fitzhugh

Old topographic map of the Sodus and Sodus Point area, with a lakeshore hill labeled by a racial slur — Freedom Hill

Google map marking Freedom Hill on the lakeshore west of the village of Sodus Point — Freedom Hill

Mural of people on a shore watching a rowboat head toward a sailing ship, with faint portraits in the sky — Freedom Hill