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Your All-American Dairy!
Hudsons' Dairy has been family owned for over 90 years. It was founded in 1931 in the rural town of Granby by Daniel Hudson with 120 cows. Today, the family's third and fourth generations are involved in the day-to-day operation. In the 1970's, many changes took place in the dairy industry. At this time, Henry Hudson pivoted and Hudsons' Dairy became a distributor of dairy products. During the early 1990's, the dairy expanded and moved from its location in Granby to its current location on the corner of West Second and Hart Street in Fulton. Today, Hudsons' Dairy offers a complete line of dairy, ice cream supplies, and water products for restaurants, grocery stores, ice cream stands, and service clubs. They look forward to welcoming you to their dairy family! Fulton's Historic Past When Fultonians go to their refrigerator for a glass of milk, they may not realize how important or how profitable the dairy industry was to this area at the beginning of this century. Numerous dairy farms once dotted the countryside surrounding Fulton. The milk from these dairy farmers was shipped daily to places like New York City by train, as the demand for milk and cream was larger than the supply and farmers refused to dump the milk. Besides supplying milk to local residents and people living in more distant cities, much of the milk produced locally was used by the Nestle Food Company to make baby formula and of course, the company's many delicious chocolate products. Running those many dairies were local families and usually the whole family took part in some aspect of the operation. Fultonians used to have thier milk delivered by dairies bearing names like Gillespie, Rogers, Triangle, Oswego Falls, Rowlee, Clove Leaf Farms, Lynworth Farms, Tayor, Jngamels, Willer, Hudsons' and others. These dairies delivered their products, first by horse-drawn wagons and later by trucks, right to a customer's door. Quite often the milk was put in a customer's milk boy on the front porch or the milkman would put it in what was called a milk door that connected to the kitchen. Back then, there were no paper containers and milk was delivered in glass quart bottles that were returned to the dairy by the customer and used again. |
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