In 1837 a man named Person Thayer and his son or nephew named Augustus Thayer came on the scene from their native state of Massachusetts. They brought property from Samuel S. Fielding and Teunis Smith from what was later called Hoes Road. The parcel was on a winding road adjoining the stream which was an outlet from Bacchus Pond was rushing on its way to Kinderhook Creek. The Thayers erected a long 3 bay Dutch type building in which they would manufacture wooden pumps. The stream was dammed up to form a pond and water was brought down a flume to run a wooden overshot water wheel which powered the machinery in the pump works.

The Thayers were mechanical geniuses. Augustus Thayer received a patent on the pump in 1842. The pumps were essentially made from hollowed out white pine stock. The wood was treated chemically and painted so that it would last almost indefinitely. A handle worked a leather bellows which would bring up the water. They were marketed as the blue pump with the black handle. Being so long lasting and so low in price, these pumps were extremely popular with farmers locally and throughout the Northeast. At its height of operations there were five salesmen out on the road selling the pumps to farmers in a wide area.