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Period: Mar 26, 600 to
history of cheese
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Voyage to the New World
Cheese was one of the many supplies that the Mayflower took to America. -
Foreign Cheese
Swiss immigrants settled in Green County Wisconsin and started manufacturing foreign cheese in America -
First Cheese Factory in the US.
The first cheese factory in the US was built by Jesse Williams in Oneida County, New York -
First Limburger plant
Wisconsin farmers believed that the key to future survival was in fact cheese. So they opened in 1868 the first Limburger plant. -
Nationwide on Cheese
Now 3,923 diary factories nationwide which were reported to have made 216 million pounds of cheese that year valued at 17 million. -
Consumer demand exceeding
surge in consumer demand with annual production exceeding 2 billion poundsa year by the beginning of the 1990s