5 Generations of Drilling: Great Depression to Digital Era
Jeremy Baldwin is president of Hawk Drilling Company located in Ballston Spa, New York. A Master Groundwater Contractor with a bachelor’s degree in environmental geology, Baldwin specializes in drilling, geology, water systems and geothermal. And that summarizes the services Hawk Drilling Company provides to residential and commercial customers in Upstate New York. The fifth-generation family business started in 1927.
It all began with Baldwin’s great, great grandfather, an oil well driller in Oklahoma. Once the Great Depression struck and oil drilling dried up, he traveled to Upstate to New York for a project drilling pilings for the Conklingville Dam on the Sacandaga River with a cable tool rig. He decided to stay in the area after the dam was completed and drill water wells for locals.