First load of reclaimed Potsdam sandstone returns home

The village of Potsdam's Department of Public Works brought home its first shipment of Potsdam sandstone from the St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center demolition project in Ogdensburg Wednesday, March 5. Potsdam's DPW crews rolled a truck load of the material into Bayside Cemetery where the village will be stockpiling the sandstone for use on future maintenance projects for the community's vintage Potsdam sandstone architecture, much of which is in need of maintenance. The material, once the quarried backbone of the village's economy in the 1800s is hard to come by these days and expensive. Above, Village of Potsdam DPW crews with former village historian Mimi Van Deusen and Potsdam Village Mayor Alexandra Jacobs Wilke stand in the rain at Bayside Cemetery with the first load of Potsdam sandstone. Read more here. Photo submitted.