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

George Helfer, a gray-haired man in glasses and a dark suit, seated at Lippy's Bar by a beer bottle — George Helfer at Lippy's Bar in the 1950'sGeorge Helfer

Single-story storefront with a large 'The White Bakery' sign, a striped awning and flower beds in front — The White Bakery (1940s)

Person seated on the sand watching pink, green and orange fireworks burst above the beach — Watching the fireworks on the beach over Labor Day weekend 2017.Fireworks on the Beach – 2017Courtesy of Ben Talbot

Custom House, a two-story ornate brick building with doors marked 'U.S. Custom House' and 'Post-Office' — Custom House

Boulder bearing a bronze historical plaque, set in a bed of white tulips and spring flowers — Mansion House

Weathered gravestone of the wife of Thomas Loyd, died Oct. 29, 1853, among fallen leaves and vines — Maxwell Settlement Cemetery – Rediscovering Our Past

Weathered gravestone in tangled brush beside a bronze star marker reading 'U.S. Veteran' — Maxwell Settlement Cemetery – Rediscovering Our Past

Black-and-white close-up of a lichen-covered gravestone with a worn, partly legible inscription — Maxwell Settlement Cemetery – Rediscovering Our PastCourtesy of Bill Huff, Jr.

Close-up of a weathered gravestone with a worn, barely legible name and an 1850s date — Maxwell Settlement Cemetery – Rediscovering Our PastCourtesy of Bill Huff, Jr.

Weathered marble gravestone with faint, worn lettering, standing against a tree trunk — Maxwell Settlement Cemetery – Rediscovering Our PastCourtesy of Bill Huff, Jr.

Clump of bare trees and brush in a harvested cornfield, marking the Maxwell Settlement burial site — The Maxwell Settlement burial site. Note a cemetery stone is visible. Photo courtesy of Bill Huff taken in…Maxwell Settlement Cemetery – Rediscovering Our PastCourtesy of Bill Huff

Weathered gravestone carved 'Prime Courtright' and 'Died', lying among fallen leaves and twigs — Photograph of Prime Courtright buried in the Maxwell Settlement burial grounds. Photo courtesy of Tom and Martha Lightfoot.…Maxwell Settlement Cemetery – Rediscovering Our PastCourtesy of Tom and Martha Lightfoot

Doorway of an old stuccoed house, peeling patches exposing cobblestones, under overhanging evergreen boughs — Every indication this is a cobblestone house that’s been stuccoed.Swales familyCourtesy of Richard Palmer

Swales Farmhouse: a white two-story house with a rooftop cupola and peeling stucco, behind bare trees — Swales Farmhouse, Looking northwest, April 2008 Probably built c. 1826-1832 by William SwalesSwales family

Front entrance hall in 1959: carpeted staircase with a turned newel post, patterned wallpaper and a door — Front entrance hall and staircase, 1959.Swales familyPhoto by Byron White

The Swales manor house, a two-story pale house with a rooftop cupola, framed by a large tree and clipped evergreens — The Swales manor house as it appeared in 1959.Swales familyPhoto by Byron White

Maxwell Creek Cobblestone House, a two-story house of rounded cobblestones with a brick chimney — Maxwell Creek Cobblestone House

Red 'Legends & Lore' marker reading 'Underground RR', citing a safe house of abolitionists Elizabeth and John Preston — Maxwell Creek Cobblestone House

Maxwell Creek Cobblestone House: cobblestone home with maroon shutters, a columned porch and hydrangeas — Maxwell Creek Cobblestone House

Long boat shed at the water's edge, a work boat moored nearby and Genesee Brewing Co. buildings behind — Kallusch Boat BuildersCourtesy of Bill Huff, Jr.

Red and white speedboat lettered 'Bad Company' carrying two people across the bay — Kallusch Boat BuildersCourtesy of Edith Farrington

Bill Kallusch and son Todd Kallusch standing in front of a powerboat named 'Bad Company' on a trailer — Bill Kallusch (William L. Kallusch) and his son Todd Kallusch. Second and third generation Kallusch boat builders. July…Kallusch Boat BuildersCourtesy of Edith Farrington

Dorathea Kallusch in a polka-dot swimsuit, seated on the deck of a 'Kallusch Special' motorboat at a dock — Photo of Dorathea Kallusch, the wife of William C. Kallusch who passed away when she was youngKallusch Boat BuildersCourtesy of Bill Huff, Jr.

Varnished wooden sailboat with 'Yankee' on its blue transom, on rails at the water's edge beside a red shed — Bill was still building his beloved wooden boats when he passed away on February 26, 1970.Kallusch Boat BuildersCourtesy of Bill Huff, Jr.

Faded photo of a sleek speedboat with a teal stripe, moored beneath a boathouse on pilings — Kallusch Boat BuildersCourtesy of Bill Huff, Jr.

Man in a cap and glasses working on an upturned wooden boat hull on sawhorses in a large boat shop — Kallusch Boat BuildersCourtesy of Bill Huff, Jr.

Two men in a wooden motorboat lettered 'Kallusch Buzabout' before a shingled boat shop on the water — Kallusch Boat BuildersCourtesy of Bill Huff, Jr.

Black-and-white photo of a sailboat numbered 18, a bird emblem on its sail, with two people aboard — Kallusch Boat BuildersCourtesy of Bill Huff, Jr.

William C. Kallusch in the iceboat Firefly, a wingless airplane body on skis with a propeller — William C. Kallusch and his iceboat creation the "Firefly" on Irondequoit Bay. It was basically an airplane on…Kallusch Boat BuildersCourtesy of Bill Huff, Jr.

Aerial postcard of the long Kallusch boathouse with 'Sodus Point' painted on its roof, the coal trestle behind — The Kallusch Boat house (circa 1950) with its distinctive Sodus Point painted on the north side of its…Kallusch Boat BuildersCourtesy of Bill Huff, Jr.

Four fire trucks lined up outside the new Sodus Point Fire Dept. hall, 1957 — In 1957 the Fire Hall was rebuilt bigger and better than ever!Fire Fighters – Our Hometown HeroesCourtesy of Bob Jones

Two fire trucks by the stone Malt House, a man in shirt and tie between them, a Genesee truck behind — Firetrucks stationed at the Malt House.Fire Fighters – Our Hometown HeroesCourtesy of Bob Jones

Aerial view dated 6/18/1947 of shoreline cottages standing in floodwater along the bay — Flooding

Hand-colored postcard of Lake Shore Station, Great Sodus Bay: a steam train beside an open shelter, people waiting — The Willow Tree, the Cannon Ball and the Battle of Sodus Point

Engraving in an ornate frame of waterfront buildings burning at night as men row a boat in the foreground — The Willow Tree, the Cannon Ball and the Battle of Sodus Point

Ray Balch with a snow shovel in deep snow before the two-story clapboard Fire Hall and its double garage doors — Ray Balch in front of the Fire Hall prior to the 1953 fire.Fire Fighters – Our Hometown HeroesCourtesy of Bob Jones

Man in a light suit and glasses placing a fedora on a seated man in a dark uniform — Coal Trestle

Woman in a dark snowsuit standing in deep snow before a building signed 'Joe's Place, Dine & Dance' — Sodus Pt. Fish & Crab House

Newspaper photo of a man beside the Doodle-Bug, an enclosed, propeller-driven ice sled on runners marked 2 — Doodle-BugCourtesy of Bill Huft

Booklet page headed 'Camp Beechwood' with a photo of a small old cobblestone shop and its history — Camp Beechwood Cobblestone Building

Ruined cobblestone building at Camp Beechwood, its stone gable and doorways nearly hidden by weeds and trees — Camp Beechwood Cobblestone BuildingPhoto by Edith Farrington

Captain Hiram Clark in a cap and long jacket, standing beside a carved chair in a studio portrait — Photo of Captain Hiram ClarkSodus Point Sailors 1854 – 1914

Double rainbow arching over calm water and a tree-lined shore under a deep blue sky, a flagpole at right — Sky over Sodus BayCourtesy of Rachel Connor

About a dozen people posing outside a concrete building, two in front holding a black machine gun — World War 1 Memorial

Wayne County Sheriff boat at a marina dock with a rusty wheeled object on its stern, men on the dock — World War 1 Memorial

Weathered black cast-iron machinery on a concrete pad beside a flagpole and a white anchor — World War 1 Memorial

World War I memorial sign listing Sodus Point veterans, a replica machine gun mounted behind it, small flags beside — World War 1 Memorial

World War I memorial: a black machine gun on a concrete base, with small flags, a wreath and a sign — World War 1 Memorial