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Brodhead Cheese Factory

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Description: Exterior of Brodhead Cheese Factory with man standing in front. The first Jaggi family factory was known as County Line Co. The business shipped cheese in ...
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Widmer's Cheese Cellars — Brick Cheese Forms

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Description: Workers are busy filling the stainless steel Brick Cheese forms with curds.
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Widmer's Cheese Cellars — Brick Cheese Production

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Description: Each Brick of cheese weighs out at approximately 5 pounds. The general rule of thumb is that it takes 10 pounds of milk to produce 1 pound of cheese. A 5 p...
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Widmer's Cheese Cellars — Forming Brick Cheese

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Description: After the curds are leveled off in each form, they are turned so that each side of the Brick is pressed. During the course of the day, each form is turned ...
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Widmer's Cheese Cellars — Brick Cheese

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Description: Brick Cheese derives its name from the bricks used to press the curds.
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Widmer's Cheese Cellars — Cold Storage Room

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Description: CEO Joe Widmer stand in the 40-degree cold storage room where Widmer's ages their award winning Cheddar, Brick, and Colby Cheese.
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Alice in Dairyland

Date: 10 1968
Description: Alice in Dairyland, Bobbie Thoreson, holding a platter of cheese, poses with four men at the World Food Expo.
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Cheesemakers at Work

Date: 1910
Description: Cheesemakers in a small local factory. The man on the right is stirring a large kettle.

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