25 Famous Upstate New York Manufacturing Companies That Disappeared
Upstate New York once had an extraordinary concentration of factories that supplied the country with locomotives, trucks, fire engines, cameras, dinnerware, office machines, industrial chemicals, and agricultural equipment. Some of those companies became household names. Others manufactured the tools and materials behind products people bought without ever knowing where they were made. Workers and factories spread from the Buffalo waterfront and the Southern Tier to Rochester, Syracuse, the Mohawk Valley, and the North Country.
