A Business Enterprise

Sandbank owners and business investors thrived in the burgeoning industry that supplied the needs of growing cities, like New York.

	A "boss" in the railroad yard, early 1900's Photo courtesy of Bedell Collection
	1945 portrait of Generoso Pope, Sr., owner of Colonial Sand Company, that adorned the office wall, 1940's Photo courtesy of Generoso Pope, Sr. Family
	Laphams and McCormacks at launching of tug 'Morania No. 4', October 22, 1957 Photo includes: Msgr. McCormack, Mrs. E. Lapham (sponsor), Edward Lapham, Mr. McCormack, Mrs. Greenow, Mrs. Ruth Pollock Lapham Photo courtesy of Port Washington Public Library
	Laphams and McCormacks at launching of tug 'Morania No. 4', October 22, 1957 Photo courtesy of Port Washington Public Library
	Portrait of John Joseph McLaughlin (b. 1843), by E. Danton. Mr. McLaughlin owned Cow Bay Sand company. Photo courtesy of John McLaughlin
	Sand Company office (no longer exists), 1942 Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Santoli
	Police truck at sand company office, 1938
	Oil painting of King's Mill by Port Washington resident Arthur Weindorf, 1939
	Photograph by Berenice Abbott, part of series "New York City in the Thirties", from Federal Arts Project, showing rapid urbanization in the 1930's
	Photograph by Berenice Abbott, part of series "New York City in the Thirties", from Federal Arts Project, showing rapid urbanization in the 1930's
	Photograph by Berenice Abbott, part of series "New York City in the Thirties", from Federal Arts Project, showing rapid urbanization in the 1930's