Cheese Factory

The Clover Hill Cheese Factory, as it was called, was located on the lake just west of the church and opened in 1902. Owned by the Cassidy brothers, the first year it received 376,360 lbs of milk. Income was $3820.30 and expenses $483.33. The average price of cheese was 9½ ¢ per lb. The average price paid for milk was $0.88 per 100 lbs.

Fred Price was the first manager. Allen Cassidy was manager of the factory from 1904. How long the cheese factory remained in production we do not know. It was at least initially successful by virtue of a note in the Kings County Record that from May to November 1906 the factory paid out between $5,000 and $6,000 to the farmers of the area. The cheese factory was not operational in 1939 and by 1949 all that remained were the foundation beams.

 

Neighbor, Fred McLong with Jimmy Wade's airplane on the frozen lake next to the cheese factory in 1939. Fred died June 2000.