(In) 1897, T.W. Decker and Sons built
a creamery on the railroad where the Sheffield plant was located,
the Roxbury side of Grand Gorge. The Deckers operated this for
several years, then the farm changed to the Sheffield Farms, Slawson-Decker
Company, Inc. In 1917, the creamery built in 1897 was completely
rebuilt and remodeled by Raymond F. Cronk, the first of several
Sheffield creameries that he built, in different parts of New
York and in Pennsylvania. That creamery continued in business
until 1963, when the Sheffield creamery ceased operations. The
building stood idle for five years, then was purchased in 1968,
by the Becker Tire Service, which also sells feed. The patrons
took their milk either to the Daitch Creamery in Roxbury or to
Hobart, since closed.
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