Program

NYS Historic

Subject

Industry & Commerce

Location

11 Creamery Rd, Stanfordville, NY 12581, USA

Lat/Long

41.870049, -73.711144

Grant Recipient

Stanford Historical Society

Around the months of August or September of 1905 Borden’s Condensed Milk Company built a factory here on the Poughkeepsie and Eastern Railroad. The structure was 210 feet long and two stories high, with a wing 50′ x 20′ feet occupied as offices. The building also included an ice house. Once open the plant employed about 20-25 men and received approximately 275 cans of milk daily from local farmers. Initially the products produced here were shipped by rail, until sometime between 1909 and 1938 when the rail line was abandoned and trucks were used instead. The factory closed on August 1, 1945.