Branchville to have New Creamery
Located on Broad Street, Replacing Present Creamery
Built in 1901
Branchville Correspondent
Ground was broken Tuesday for a new Creamery on Broad
street to replace the one on lower Main street built by the Borden Company
in 1901. The corporation is now known as The Sussex Milk and Cream Co.
The new building will be constructed of brick and will
be 100 by 50 feet. The structure will be built on the side of the track
from which the Lackawanna station was recently moved. The land was leased
from the railroad and a small tract next to the highway was purchased
from the Mary Smith estate. Carl J. Barker is the present superintendent
of the creamery. Mr. Barker took over in 1921. Former superintendents
were the late Wilbur F. Dye and his son Ralph Dye. F. W. Fulboam operated
a creamery here prior to the Bordens.
At the present time approximately eight hundred cans
of milk produced by one hundred twenty five dairies are being delivered
here daily and the milk is being shipped to Newark by tank trucks and
railroad tank cars. There is no definite information available at present
as to whether milk will be bottled here when the new creamery gets in
operation or not, but such may be the case. Milk was bottled here for
a number of years and many people were employed. This was changed a
few years ago and the number of employees cut down when the company
started shipping in tanks. There are about ten local men employed on
the excavation and Branchville residents are hoping for the old days
of bottling milk thus giving employment to a large force of men.
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