THE NEWARK MILK AND CREAM COMPANY CREAMERY
UC&SV LLC owns the former Newark Milk and Cream Company creamery in the Town of Columbia adjacent to our parking facility in the hamlet of South Columbia. We will be working to stabilize the structure to reuse the building for a variety of new uses. The building was built in 1930 and features terra cotta floors throughout the milk processing and cheese storage areas. The building has 6,000 square feet of well designed industrial space necessary to support the operations of a creamery. Additional tile work is evident on the walls in the "office", "Laboratory" and "Can room". The bulk of the building was devoted to the storage and preparation of cheese and dairy products.
The Newark Milk and Cream Company was located in Newark, New Jersey. The Lackawanna Railroad mainline serves Newark and so the New Jersey business established branch "creameries" like ours, to prepare dairy products for the New York region. Passenger trains served the extensive network of Lackawanna Railroad branches such as the Richfield Springs branch making transportation of the heavy commodities possible. Many of the dairy farmers in the South Columbia area used the Creamery up until the early 1960's when a contentious battle with the newer technology of farms using milk truck pick up wiped out the rural creamery network.
Please take a moment to view a few preliminary photographs of the Creamery today.
