page_title: Canisteo (village), New York
section_title: Businesses and industries
hierarchical_section_title: Canisteo (village), New York / Businesses and industries
caption_attribution_description: English: Due to the unavailability of the hall at the Canisteo Academy, this "entertainment" was held at the Carter foundry, later the Canisteo Steam Power Company.
context_page_description: Canisteo is a village in Steuben County, New York, United States. The population was 2,270 at the 2010 census.
  The Village of Canisteo is in the northwest corner of the Town of Canisteo and is southeast of Hornell, New York.
context_section_description: A number of small manufacturing establishments existed along Depot Street in the nineteenth century; there were 10 factories in Canisteo in 1873. These included the Voorhis planing mill, a site later taken over by the Canisteo Sash & Door Company in 1885. These were located at the site of the present Canisteo trailer park (which replaced a waste materials company that occupied the site after the factory's closure). The Henry Carter and Son foundry, founded in 1873, renamed the Canisteo Steam Power Company, manufactured steam engines and many other metal products. In 1890, it employed 10 men.
  The Tucker button factory was also located on Depot Street. In 1908 the factory was occupied by the Thomas Spring & Gear Company, which manufactured shock absorbers for Ford cars, using an invention patented by Charles L. Thomas of Canisteo.
  Other manufacturers included the Canisteo Silk Mill, on Russell St., which in the 1920s had 200 employees and was the only such factory in the country. There was also a small sawmill, on Third St.; and Scott's Dairy, a milk processor, located on Depot St. near the rail line. Scott's had a small ice cream shop on the north side of West Main St.
  For more information on and pictures of Canisteo's industries, and the fires which destroyed several of them, see Virginia Dickey's "The Canisteo of the 1890s".
  The Canisteo Theater, which closed in the 1950s, was a brick building on the west side of Greenwood St., demolished around 2000.
  The only significant industry in Canisteo today is the Welles Bros. sign factory, which began operations in 1955 from a leased building, now (2015) abandoned, on Fifth Street; in 1967 it moved to its present (2015) building at 92 Depot St.
caption: Handbill for an "entertainment" held at Carter's foundry in Canisteo, New York, 1874