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It was 1929 and a creamery was built, along with a boiler house, a warehouse, and a garage and pump building. The creamery provided jobs for men during the great depression to feed their families and pay their taxes. Other community members hauled milk to the creamery and were employed by the creamery, whose product was called challenge butter. The creamery continuously ran seven days a week for 40 years while it was owned by the Ada County Dairymen's Association. In the later years of operation the creamery was affiliated with Wyeth Laboratories to manufacture SMA baby formula. After the operations were ceased in 1970 the dairymen’s milk was shipped to Caldwell for processing. From the 1970s until early 2006, the site was used mainly as…show more content…
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