I worked on the initial survey of Fort Drum, NY for Envirosphere a division of the Texas power plant design company Ebasco, once located at 40 Rector Street and then on a number of floors in the World Trade Center "twin towers". At one time New York State led the nation in cheese production until it shifted further west to Wisconsin, and today I think I read California. In the expansion to the current 100,000+ acres after WWII of Pine Camp to Fort Drum about 10,000 people were relocated and structures removed, many had been 19th century and 20th century cheese factories, based on the available bag of cheese curds found nearby at still operating then "cheese factories", that is small production area I visited in nearby Black River, NY, the only river flowing north in NY state. I worked in the field testing and I'm not sure where after us, the Berger five year contract went, perhaps where as Mr. Gibbs points out, no archaeology study has gone before. There was also about four bog-iron source foundries in and near the federal facility, that it's stated produced early railroad wheels and axles, and were part of a cultural resources plan for the new cantonment of the US Army 10th Mountain Division (light infantry) from Camp Hale in Colorado.

Envirosphere move to East Orange, New Jersey before the debacle of 9/11/01. Anecdotal by the way archaeologist Edward Johanneman and I once visited the excavation of then new Building 7 going up and were denied access, though he worked for the State Museums office, and fortunately things have changed in regards to this profession. Joel Klein, PhD., was the P.I. on the 90-something floor of the WTC for the original Fort Drum survey before he joined Foster-Wheeler which also suffered a tragedy when the plane crashed in Bosnia in April 1996 with the then trade mission headed by the former Chairman of the Democratic Party Ron Brown then Commerce Secretary. He might have more info on "cheese factories" or by anthropology fieldwork we might study some of the few remaining there.

I must confess in a blinding dark rainstorm handed a miss-fired smoke grenade in the shelter of a large tree, to have pulled the bent-up pin and tossed what turned out to be an orange smoke grenade into a cheese factory foundation, or so I was told. 

An amazing bit of geomorphology based archaeology has been done there by the US Army relocating ancient glacial beach shores and paleolithics found.