Results tagged “Warner's Dairy” from York Town Square

This 1998 photo from the York Daily Record/Sunday News files shows Albert Garber's dairy farm, lower left, next to Eddie Steider's farm, in West Manchester Township. At right, homes and businesses occupy what were once cornfields. That's Taxville Road cutting through both areas. York/Adams' dairy industries have changed greatly over the years. But now one part of them is changing back - home milk deliveries. Background posts: Baltimore screamed for York County ice cream and Pinch Gut or Arbor or Adamsville is in Red Lion or Dallastown or, uh, actually York Township and Perrydale's bovine: 'She's a wonderful, laid-back cow'.

York County's last milkman may have made his final delivery in 1994. That is believed to have been John Schwartz, who retired from Rutter's Dairy.

Now comes a Hanover Evening Sun (4/15/09) story that tells of the East Berlin-based Apple Valley Creamery's venture into delivering to homes in parts of Adams, York and Cumberland counties.

Apple Valley's owners looked at the home delivery business from a historical perspective.

According to the Evening Sun: