David Babson, a regular correspondent on this list and student at Syracuse is currently doing his Ph.D. research and excavations at Fort Drum. I believe he has some of those cheese production facilities as part of his work. John Dendy Archeologist Dynamac > -----Original Message----- > From: George Myers [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 5:36 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Iowa cheese factory > > Fort Drum, New York, east of Watertown, NY had many cheese factories, > though > they were removed, the above ground structures, The nearby communities of > Madrid and Philadelphia, NY may have remaining structures from that era, > when > New York State was the largest cheese producing state in the nation. > "Helluva" cheese still comes from that vicinity and I am always amazed how > > far it travels. If like Iowa, the smaller factories are around one can > stop > in for a bag of "curds" to munch as a snack along the way. Initial studies > > were done by Envirosphere, then a division of EBASCO by the PI Joel Klein, > > Ph.D. who might have some information about the earlier factories > encountered > in the survey. Probably supplied much of the food for the bog iron works > of > which there were four there supplying railroad axles and wheels to the > early > railroading industry. > > George Myers >