Peerless Cheese Factory
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Village or Township: Primrose Township
Address: 541 Peerless Rd at SH 92, Belleville, WI Years of Operation: 1882 - 1957 Cheesemakers: Alfred and Emma Brauchi (1928 listed with no wife); Casper A. and Sylvia (Lee) Thoni; Herman and Esther (Barthuly) Burkhardt Cheese Types: Patrons: Adolph Rindy; John H. Disch; Jacob Jacobson; Melvin K. Peters (mgr. 1909); Casper Disch; Orville Fritz; C.A. Fink; James Hanna; Jacob Hoesly; Clarence Tollefson; Melvin Jensen; Carl Bringold; Walter Duerst; Alfred Wenger; Alfred Rundell; Raymon Disch; Sylvan Disch Notes: Operated until 1910 when Pet Milk opened a plant in New Glarus; re-opened in 1926. Biennial report of the Dairy and Food Commissioner of WI: Primrose PO 1901, Belleville 1913, 1930 |
Map: 1954
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