sheffield farms
in 1902 t. w. decker & sons, along with slawson brothers, merged with sheffield to form sheffield farms - slawson - decker co. subsequently this company was renamed sheffield farms company .
3229 broadway near 130th street, once the sheffield farms - slawson - decker stable .
above tuck - it - away the inscription on this building reads sheffield farms company .
sheffield farms - slawson decker co. , creamery - hobart, n. y .
trade catalogs from sheffield farms co. , inc. | national museum of american history
sheffield farms - slawson decker co. , creamery - hobart - delaware county ny genealogy and history site
when i was a boy living in the southern end of eny. brooklyn there were a number of daires………wortman farms. crescent farms…savosh farms. all located along wortman ave. between berriman st. and schenck ave. . also balsam farms on schenck ave. between new lots and hegeman .
sheffield farms is an organic and free range farm based in mayfield, tunbridge wells, kent, selling turkey, sausages, bacon, and beef .
sheffield farms and other dairy companies built a cluster of processing and transport facilities near the 130th street rail station, where milk could be bottled and prepared for delivery throughout upper manhattan. sheffield farms, borden’s, and the united states dairy products company were known as the “big three. ” together they controlled more than 60 percent of the city’s business. by 1916, sheffield farms’ share amounted to 20 percent of all milk sold in the city .
sheffield farms produces organic beef, free range pork and free range bronze turkeys, all in the wealden countryside. tweet or visit our website for more info !
a nice postcard of the sheffield farms - slawson decker co. , creamery at hobart, ny, is found on the delaware county ny genealogy and history website .
if you' ve visited one of these children' s farms in sheffield, please consider leaving a review on the attraction page to help others plan their next fun day out .
a sheffield farms building on west 125th street between broadway and 12th avenue is now prentis hall, department of chemical engineering; it was constructed in 1906 with the architect being edgar moeller .
directories list sheffield farms at 1055 webster avenue from 1914 through 1969. the bronx telephone directory for 1970 listed 1055 webster avenue as sealtest foods, division of kraftco corp. - milk service .
my mom grew up on wortman farms – we would love more information if anyone has it .
by the early twentieth century sheffield farms was one of the largest dairy companies in the world. but its founder had begun modestly in 1841, making daily deliveries from his farm in the bronx with a single cart and a few milk containers. the company’s first innovation was the invention of an enclosed milk wagon designed to keep dust out of the milk containers. eventually four separate dairy concerns combined to form the sheffield farms company
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historic american engineering record, creator. sheffield farms milk plant, webster avenue southwest corner of 166th street, bronx, bronx county, ny. bronx bronx county new york, 1968. documentation compiled after. photograph. urltoken
the sheffield dairy plant at 632 west 125th street, designed by frank a. rooke, shown in the 1910s .
historic american engineering record, creator. sheffield farms milk plant, webster avenue southwest corner of 166th street, bronx, bronx county, ny. documentation compiled after. photograph. retrieved from the library of congress, < urltoken > .
ms. habstritt says that in 1903 two major dairies established themselves in the area: sheffield farms - slawson - decker, in a modest building at 3229 broadway, near 130th street, and mcdermott - bunger, in a new dairy at 527 west 125th street .
sheffield farms is owned and run by will sheffield. based at clayton farm, mayfield, east sussex, farming 250 acres of a typical wealden landscape. the farm rears free range turkey and pigs, and organic beef from a herd of pedigree sussex cattle. repeat winners of' champion turkey' and' champion pig' at the south east marts winter fayre and prize winners at ashford christmas fat stock show .
historic american engineering record, c. (1968) sheffield farms milk plant, webster avenue southwest corner of 166th street, bronx, bronx county, ny. bronx bronx county new york, 1968. documentation compiled after. [ photograph ] retrieved from the library of congress, urltoken
the dairy business in this period was often volatile and controversial. women and mothers in harlem took their concerns over high prices directly to the streets on multiple occasions, picketing sheffield farms and other companies to demand affordable milk for their children. dairy workers and delivery - wagon drivers engaged in frequent and sometimes violent strikes to ensure a fair wage and revenue share. leading a highly visible industry in a predominantly african - american neighborhood, sheffield farms executives understood the value of community friendship. the company hired a black foreman in the 1930s, despite the opposition of some white employees .
the dairies were served by milk trains coming down the hudson river rail line, and in 1909 sheffield farms - slawson - decker enlarged its initial building on broadway to an imposing six - story structure that housed horses. stables were the vein system of the milk industry, sending out wagons to drop off thousands of bottles every morning to individual customers .
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sheffield farms on west side webster avenue between east 165th and 166th streets in the morrisania section of the bronx. there was more of the dairy building on right side. that part was demolished to make way for the apartment building about ten years ago. (i know this personally because i used to drive the bx41 that went right past the building. )
these days, columbia is planning a new science campus, mostly west of broadway from 125th to 133rd street. in addition to the 125th street sheffield site, it owns the borden one, and says it plans to keep them intact. but it plans to demolish the 1909 sheffield stable on broadway, and does not rule out invoking the right of eminent domain to get it .
by the 1930s the dairies had begun building milk - processing plants beyond manhattan. gradually, they moved out of manhattanville; columbia bought sheffield’s old 125th street plant in 1949 for its engineering school .
sheffield farms, a major milk distributor in the northeast in the late 1800s and early 1900s, was acquired by national dairy products (now kraft, inc .) in 1925. it has left a number of impressive buildings around town, not least what is now the cbs broadcast center at 524 west 57th street at the northern end of hell’s kitchen. here are some others…– your webmaster
all the children' s farms we list are rated according to the ages they are suitable for, facilities and whether they are suitable for rainy days or best when the sun is shining .
my father too drove a delivery truck for hegeman farms on centre st. in ridgewood. i remember that they had a processing and bottling plant there. i was fascinated by that place .
before modern efficiencies, milk and milk products were done on a local scale. eventually due to new york city’s swelling population, larger facilities were needed. there were many private companies filling that demand, but by 1930 three dairy companies dominated the dairy scene. they were the united states dairy products corp. , borden’s and sheffield farms. most of those facilities are gone now, but a few buildings have survived…
sheffield farms in brooklyn. this facility was on south side of fulton street between brooklyn & new york avenues. the building was transformed to the restoration center in the early 1970s. the restoration center contains retail stores that includes a duane - reade drugstore, baskin - robbins, a branch of citibank, a supermarket that was formerly pathmark, a skating rink and the billie holiday theater where off - off broadway shows are presented .
date range 1800s - 1900s company name sheffield farms co. , inc. place new york, new york, united states notes content company history 1841 - 1941 includes trade catalog and histories physical description 1 piece; 1 box record id silnmahtl _ 19017 topic (romaine term) farm equipment and supplies (including dairy and poultry equipment) topic dairying farm equipment location trade literature at the american history museum library collection smithsonian libraries trade literature collections data source smithsonian libraries
the building was another in the modern french style, with a huge projecting eave of tile. (in 1909, according to articles in the times, more than 60 sheffield horses died during an epidemic of arsenic poisoning, apparently by extortionists or disgruntled employees. )
the new plant could process and pasteurize 15, 000 bottles an hour and, according to a 1911 article in the magazine architecture and building, was the brainchild of loton horton, head of sheffield, “whose long life has been devoted to the study of pure milk. ”
anyone have information on a “municipal farms, inc. ” in new york city? i just found a 1 / 2 pint milk bottle with their inscription. it’s also covered with stars of david, to include a very large one on the bottom, which i assume means it’s kosher .
the sheffield dairy had a copper and glass overhang over the central section, shielding delivery wagons from the elements. the milk cans were emptied on the top floor in a dust - free room: the windows were double - glazed, and air pressure was kept higher than that outside, so air was constantly flowing out .
it is dawn on 125th street. families are rising. the train booms overhead; trolley tracks run between the cobblestones and the early morning traffic. workers hurry to their jobs at the local automobile factories, printers, and storage companies. the largest employer in the area is the sheffield farms dairy, whose proud billboard boasts the motto, “for the rising generation, ” and shows a healthy child enjoying a glass of milk. horse - drawn wagons emerge from a nearby stable building to distribute bottles across upper manhattan. the year is 1929. new york city at the time is said to have “the best milk supply of any large city in the world. ” but, this had not always been the case .
sheffield soon added a new hub for its operations, its great dairy plant at 632 west 125th street, finished in 1911. like the 1909 stable, this was designed by frank a. rooke — a specialist in stable and industrial architecture — with a pure, gleaming front of white glazed tile, and trimmed with copper windows and other details, oxidized to green .
i grew up on de sarc road in ozone pqrk. born 1944, grade school at ps 63. the balsam farms was still operating into the early fifties along pitkin ave, past sitka st. . before little league field was built, we kids used to run by the active farm buildings and even nibble (ugh !) the cow feed .
i live in south carolina now, but when i lived in saratoga ny, i bought a milk can which i still have. the top is stamped – amity dairies, nyc. the side is stamped, hersey farms inc. long island city, there is also a serial number on the top. do u have any infro on these dairys ?
balsam farms was sold about 1963 and homes were built. isaac balsam (1880 - 1945) started the first chalav yisrael dairy farm on the east coast, and possibly in the united states. he emigrated to the us in 1898. lived initially with his uncle, meyer emmer for 5 years and worked on his dairy farm. in 1903 balsam established his own dairy farm in ozone park queens. at its peak the balsam farm had 300 cows .
hi bill my father bill savosh worked on this family dairy owned by his father. my dad (now pasted on) never spoke of it. a cousin of mine once told me that the city had taken the farm by imminent domain and is now housing he referred to as “the projects”. we are in california where my parents settled in the 1940s and have grown to a family of a dozen (between my brother and i). i would love to hear anything, anyone remembers about savosh farms. gary savosh
my father, sam, worked for hegeman farms on centre street near the brooklyn / queens border for as long as i can remember. he delivered wholesale to the schools and hospitals and carried wooden crates of pints of milk which were much heavier than the plastic ones we have today, one on each shoulder from his truck. i remember going to the facility many times where they “bottled” the milk into quarts and pints (no half gallons in those days) which i think were cardboard covered in wax film. a gas station opened on the next street and every saturday night they gave away a tv–the streets were crowded with cars and people waiting for the winner to be called .
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loton horton b. 22 apr 1854 orange county, new york d. 15 dec 1926 nice, france: darlene' s family genealogy
gabriel c. horton, b. 30 nov 1830, wallkill, orange co. , new york, d. 28 sep 1864 (age 33 years )
mary ann slawson, b. dec 1835, orange county, new york, d. 1857 (age ~ 21 years )
slawson brothers left to right, seated: orson w. horton, charles cox, i. a. van bomel, charles b. carpenter and emmett stoddard. the little boy between emmett stoddard and charles b. carpenter is g. i. slawson, son of daniel slawson, john finch, hiram horton and sayre j. slawson. left to right, standing, directly behind those seated: charles wheat, decatur…
our popular sausages and bacon are available online and at the farm gate, we also supply various local retailers. cattle usually go to marks and spencers (with the exception of a couple kept for home use), while our seasonal turkeys are also sold online, at the farm gate, other local farm shops and a couple of local butchers .
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which continued operating into the 1950s, before eventually being incorporated into kraft foods .
in the first half of the 20th century, new york has the best transit system in the world. manufacturing, which was prospering in the city, needed infrastructure and that incredibly complex necessity is the underpinnings of the growth of industry on the edges of the city such as manhattanville .
this exhibition examines the fifty - year crusade to turn milk from a “deadly fluid” into a mainstay of a healthy diet. the milk reform movement involved community activists, city officials, scientists and business leaders working together to find solutions to improve public health. much of the movement’s activity and success occurred here in the manhattanville neighborhood .
drawing on the expertise of leading scholars and scientists this short documentary describes the rise of manhattanville as a center of milk processing and distribution in new york city history. positioned at a nexus of transit networks, industry and population hubs, the neighborhood served a crucial role in the history of public health in the metropolis at a time when procuring healthy milk was literally a matter of life and death .
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served by the milk trains mcdermott - bungers dairy at 527 west 125th street in 1937 .
got eminent domain? that’s what has upset some people who are concerned about columbia university’s expansion plans for an area between far west 125th and 133rd streets. the university has said that acquiring the land by eminent domain is a possibility .
foes of the expansion lost their battle, as the new york city council approved columbia’s plans in december. likewise, mary habstritt, an industrial archaeologist with a unique vision, failed to persuade the landmarks preservation commission to confer landmark designation on an unusual dairy stable that columbia would like to remove. but in the process of trying, ms. habstritt has succeeded in tracing the history of the milk industry of this tiny area .
beginning in the 1860s, factories producing lumber, paint, beer, dye and other materials cropped up on the far western end of manhattan valley, around what is now west 125th street, with its direct connections to the rail line along the hudson river and the ferry .
for the latter, the architects sass & smallheiser, known otherwise for lower east side tenements, designed an ambitious three - story building of buff brick, with the initials mb carved into the limestone trim. the new dairy was in the modern french style; its intricate ironwork, ceremonial flagpoles and suave stonework evoked the fresh - from - paris work of ernest flagg and other high - style designers .
inside, the walls were pure white - painted plaster, meeting in curves to avoid dirt - catching corners. the ceilings were a green glass tile, ribbed and translucent. milk flowed down through filters and pasteurizing equipment until bottled and sealed at the ground - floor level. ice was dumped into the screen - bottom milk crates, which were transferred to delivery wagons moving through a half - oval path on the interior, entering on the right side of the building and exiting on the left .
mr. horton had bitterly opposed the 1912 city law that required all milk to be pasteurized, but nevertheless designed his plant with pasteurizing capacity .
borden’s occupied a third major building in the area, the huge red brick studebaker factory, built in 1924 at 615 west 131st street. in 1937 borden’s rebuilt it for its own use, as the headquarters of 366 routes, 110 of which were still traveled by horse and wagon .
ms. habstritt was hired to research the area by anne whitman, who owns the 1909 stable and runs a moving and storage business there, with the idea that landmark designation for the stable would forestall columbia’s demolition plans. the landmarks preservation commission has said no, but ms. habstritt’s report on its dairy aspects, to be posted at urltoken is unusual in the way it traces the evolution and decline of a specialized industry in a small area .
even if successful, ms. habstritt’s work would have created only a minor obstacle to columbia’s plan; at most it would have had to build around the stable. but her research knits together an otherwise disparate collection of buildings, casting light on a vanished industry of new york .
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macombs dam bridge, spanning harlem river between 155th street viaduct, jerome avenue, & east 162nd street, ...
university heights bridge, spanning harlem river at 207th street & west harlem road, new york county, ...
[ first - ] ninth annual report of the new york state dairy commissioner... 1884 - 1891 / 92 .
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extracts from the report of the new york state cheese manufacturers' association, organized january 7, 1864 ...
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sanborn fire insurance map from new york, bronx, kings, queens, richmond, new york .
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the same article mentioned t. w. decker & sons ,
of the firms extensively engaged in the retail milk business t. w. decker & sons is probably the oldest established. away back in the year 1841 t. w. decker commenced the sale of pure milk. from a comparatively insignificant business then the output of the firm has grown to very great dimensions, necessitating the constant, personal supervision not only of mr. decker and his three sons, but a large trained force. vast changes have taken place in those fifty - odd years in the collection and distribution of the city milk supply. from what are now the northern sections of the city the dairies have been pushed out countryward, till now the firm draws its main supply from pawling, in dutchess county .
thompson w. decker
milkman
was listed in doggett' s new york city directory in 1848 - 49 at 330 third avenue. this became thompson w. decker
milk
at 155 e. 27th st. in rode 1852 - 53, and then at 309 e. 27th st. in trow 1868. thompson w. decker, himself, lived at 311 e. 27th st. in the 1880 u. s. census. thompson w. decker & sons opened plants at 1013 fourth ave. near 84th st. (later 1077 fourth ave. at 88th st .) and at 763 fifth ave. in the mid - 1880s. 1077 fourth ave. became 1077 park ave. around 1888. another plant opened at 583 - 585 park ave. near 63rd st. around 1889, and late in the 1890s there were locations at 269 columbus ave. (72nd st .) and 558 columbus ave. (87th st .) on manhattan' s west side. a much later location was 524 w. 57th st. , also on the west side .
the founder of t. w. decker & sons was thompson willis decker (1820 - 1902). he was born 4 september 1820 in elizabeth, new jersey, and died 8 april 1902 in new york city. an obituary notice appeared in the new york times, 9 april 1902, reading ,
thompson w. decker, an old - time new york merchant, died yesterday in this city at his home, 838 lexington avenue. he was born in elizabeth, n. j. , on sept. 4, 1820. he came to new york and went into the retail milk business in 1841, and had continued in that business ever since, taking in his sons as partners from time to time. mr. decker leaves a wife, three sons, two daughters, and two grandchildren. the funeral will take place at his home to - morrow evening, and the interment will be at woodlawn on friday morning .
the sons of the original t. w. decker were thompson willis decker, jr. (1850 - 1911), henry e. decker (1851 - 1906) and george crandell decker (1855 - 1904). according to a notice in the new york times, 21 oct. 1911, pg. 13, the second thompson willis decker died 20 october 1911 in new york city :
decker - suddenly, on friday, oct. 20, 1911, thompson w. decker, son of the late thompson w. and maria decker. funeral services at his residence, 319 west 88th st. , on monday, oct. 23, at 1: 30 p. m. interment at convenience of family .
henry e. decker died 29 december 1906. as reported in the new york times, 2 january 1907, pg. 7 ,
decker - suddenly, on dec. 29, henry e. decker, son of the late thompson w. and maria decker. friends and relatives are invited to attend funeral services from his late residence, 171 east 64th st. , on wednesday, jan 2, at 1 o' clock .
george c. decker was born 7 april 1855 and died 29 december 1904 .
an ad from the orthodox union, 1933 appears on google books in new york' s jewish jews: the orthodox community in the interwar years, 1990, by jenna weissman joselit .
a view of a t. w. decker & sons creamery near grand gorge in delaware county, ny, appears on google books in around roxbury, 2013, by anthony liberatore and lynette hinkley liberatore .
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r. h. renken dairy a t sw corner of classon & myrtle avenues, clinton hill brooklyn. building is unused presently. it was constructed in the 1930s by koch & wagner .
right: art deco design of office entrance on myrtle avenue side of building that’s still in good condition except for the missing “e” in office .
the m. h. renken dairy of brooklyn, ny was established in 1927 in the eastern part of the borough, continuing operation until 1962 .
mayflower ice cream company on east side of vernon avenue near 43rd avenue in long island city, queens .
right: the former w. m. evans dairy co. on fulton street and eldert lane in cypress hills, brooklyn. this is the highest numbered address on brooklyn’s fulton street–your webmaster
the history of borden’s is a lengthy and illustrious one in the annals of american entrepreneurship .
as an american philanthropist, businessman, and inventor, gail borden, jr. envisioned food concentrates as a means of safeguarding the human food supply. he was the first to develop a commercial method of condensing milk, and the dairy company founded by him (renamed borden, inc. , in 1968) expanded and diversified to become a sizable corporation operating in many areas of business .
gail borden, jr. , (1801 - 1874) inventor, publisher, surveyor, and founder of the borden company, son of gail and philadelphia borden, was born in norwich, new york, on november 9, 1801. in the middle 1840s he began inventing. he is supposed to have experimented with large - scale refrigeration as a means of preventing yellow fever and with a terraqueous machine, a sort of prairie schooner that would go on land or water. in 1849 he perfected a meat biscuit, made of dehydrated meat compounded with flour, which he tried to market on a worldwide scale in partnership with ashbel smith. although this project left him deeply in debt, for seven years borden struggled to sell meat biscuits. for this purpose he moved to new york in 1851 to be nearer trade centers .
in 1853 he sought a patent on a process for condensing milk in vacuum, but it was 1856 before he received american and british patents. he then dropped the meat biscuit to devote himself to condensing milk. he opened a factory in connecticut in 1856 but failed, then tried and failed again in 1857. through jeremiah milbank, a new york financier, he received new backing and opened another factory in connecticut in 1858. when the civil war brought intensified demand for condensed milk, sales grew so much that borden’s success was assured. he opened another factory in connecticut, two in new york, and one in illinois and licensed other concerns in pennsylvania and maine. he also invented processes for condensing various fruit juices, for extract of beef, and for coffee. after the civil war he established a meat - packing plant at borden, texas, twelve miles west of columbus, and a sawmill and copperware factory at bastrop .
he died in borden, texas, a community named for him. today it boasts a population of about 50 .
i’m not elsie. this is borden’s facility on south side of atlantic avenue near barbey street in east new york, brooklyn .
the blue terra cotta borden’s entablature is cracked and broken above what was the main entrance, but flanking the door are two of nyc’s more unsung terra cotta designs, seemingly depicting switzerland .
while new york is full of gorgeous terra cotta, some of it gets no respect: the large tablet at the tunnel garage has now disappeared as the gragae is demolished, and several wonderful scenes depicting activities at seaview hospital lie cracked, broken, and overgrown with weeds and fungus .
happily, parkchester in the bronx has dozens of terrific pieces still. — your webmaster
this borden’s facility is on the east side of ralph avenue between monroe street and gates avenue in bedford - stuyvesant, brooklyn, and its identifying tablet is still there .
photographed mid - to - late 2005 by gary fonville. page completed april 8, 2006 .
doing research for my book, i don’t see hegemann dairy, elmhusrt, n. y > or elmhurst dairy, queens, n. y .
in her new autobiography, cyndi lauper mentions the abandoned borden’s on atlantic avenue near her childhood home in ozone park .
it may be the hegeman dairy you are looking for. we grew up near the hegeman dairy in the east new york section of brooklyn in what we called “new lots”. new lots were developed and sold to many italian immigrant families maybe in the 1915 + time frame. they were originally the garbage dump site that had been covered in dug up bay bottom sand and i guess after some very long period of time the ground was allowed to be sold and had homes built on it. we played in the newer parts of the dump that in my time extended out to the bay fom more or less linden blvd. maybe hegeman avenue was named after that family .
there was a hegeman’s lane in brookville, li which i believe the dairy may have been located .
looking for info on the stehlin dairy in westbury long island back in the mid 1800s to early 1900s i think. he was my grandfather’s brother. looking for any info, or possibly even a dairy bottle or can from there. just found out about this two days ago !
can anyone give info on a dairy in new lots sec. of b’klyn. name of “wasserman” or” waddington”. my brother seems to remember it was late 1940’s early 1950’s near pennsylvania or hageman aves. thank you .
i am wondering what went on at these dairies…. were cows actually stabled there in the middle of the city? were there fields for them to wander in or did they spend their lives in stalls? how did this work in a city with buildings and cars and city life? how did it smell? how was it cleaned? where did the manure go? how was the feed brought in? how many cows would a dairy have or serve? and these things were still in use into the 60s? ???
the sheffield farms – slawson – decker company , known as sheffield farms , pasteurized , bottled , and delivered milk in new york city in the first half of the 20th century , becoming one of the largest dairy companies in the world , and selling 20 % of the city 's milk . the company played a major part in transforming commercial milk from a dirty , disease-spreading product into a clean and healthy one . 
the sheffield farms – slawson – decker company, known as sheffield farms, pasteurized, bottled, and delivered milk in new york city in the first half of the 20th century, becoming one of the largest dairy companies in the world, and selling 20% of the city's milk. the company played a major part in transforming commercial milk from a dirty, disease-spreading product into a clean and healthy one.
the sheffield farms – slawson – decker company, known as sheffield farms, pasteurized, bottled, and delivered milk in new york city in the first half of the 20th century, becoming one of the largest dairy companies in the world, and selling 20% of the city's milk. the company played a major part in transforming commercial milk from a dirty, disease-spreading product into a clean and healthy one.