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The small factories in the Adirondacks employed women to do light work which required attention to detail such as packing boxes, molding maple candies, or sewing shirts. Most factory jobs required skills that were quickly learned and often repetitive. Women were not expected to remain long in them. There is little evidence of factories in the Adirondacks employing women in the 1800s. The Horseshoe Forestry Company near Tupper Lake, New York, employed about sixty young women to mold and package maple sugar candies during the summer, around the turn of the nineteenth century. The women were housed in a boarding house on the site. |   |
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