Morgantown
Roy P. Anderson
Information needed.
A pint bottle bearing his full first name.
A pint bottle with "Roy" abbreviated.
Same as the last, but with an added phone number and as a quart.
Bonner Dairy Co.
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Cloverdale Dairy — G.H. Poole
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Chico Mahoney Dairy/Ice Cream Co.
Coming soon.
Coburn Creek Dairy/Dalton Dairy
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Fair View Farm
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Hawkins Dairy
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Highland View Dairy Farm
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George J. McClure Dairy
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Morgantown Sanitary Milk Co.
Coming soon.
Sand Hill Dairy — Charles Babich
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Sanitary Milk & Ice Cream Co.
Coming soon.
Santo Dairies Inc.
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Sunny Slope Farm
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W.V.U. Dairy & West Virginia Experiment Station
1917— 2019
The story of the W.V.U. Dairy and the West Virginia Experiment Station actually begins in Wheeling. In 1897, Lawrence Reymann, the owner of Reymann Brewing Company, founded the Hill Top Farm in Wheeling (Hebel, 2019). His dairy farm was lauded by the Journal of Dairy Science as being one of the greatest Ayrshire cow herds of the 19th Century.
To prevent the spread of disease within the herd, Reymann began an additional farm in Wardensville, West Virginia named Cacapon Farms. Lawrence Reymann passed away in 1911, upon which his brother Paul Reymann took control of the dairy business in his brother’s stead. In 1917, Paul Reymann gifted both the Wardensville and Wheeling farms to the West Virginia University Experiment Station.
The 1887 Hatch Act provided federal funds to begin experimental stations at land-grant universities; WVU was one of those institutions. The West Virginia Experiment Station was in the basement of Oglebay Hall. In 2019, the university announced that they would be selling their cows and divesting themselves from the dairy industry (Nolting, 2019).
Go Mountaineers.
The West Virginia University Experiment Station herd, ca. 1904. From West Virginia History OnView.
The W.V.U. Dairy Farm on Easter Sunday, 1925, featuring students with their cows. From West Virginia History OnView.
References
Hebel, H. (2019). The 100-year-old history of the WVU dairy herd. The Daily Anthenaeum. https://www.thedaonline.com/news/university/the-100-year-old-history-of-the-wvu-dairy-herd/article_488acae4-e85e-11e9-be9d-6b65896fa847.html
Nolting, M. (2019). WVU decides to sell dairy cows. West Virginia MetroNews. https://wvmetronews.com/2019/09/25/wvu-decides-to-see-dairy-cows/