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
>