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The Jerome Cooperative Creamery is a cooperative creamery and also refers to historic lava rock structures used by the creamery on Birch Street in Jerome, Idaho, United States. The structures were listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 8, 1983. They were built in 1915, 1924, and 1933 by master stonemason H.T. Pugh who popularized the use of lava rock in the Jerome area.
The Jerome Cooperative Creamery paid $668,356.70 (equivalent to $11,502,771 in 2023) to local farmers for butterfat in 1926. The creamery produced 1,900,000 pounds (860,000 kg) of butter that year. In 1939, the creamery paid $1,183,378 (equivalent to $25,921,074 in 2023) for butterfat. Roy D. Smith was the manager of the creamery for 38 years from the early 1920s until the late 1950s.




See also


List of National Historic Landmarks in Idaho
National Register of Historic Places listings in Jerome County, Idaho




References






External links



Media related to Jerome Cooperative Creamery at Wikimedia Commons
Photograph by Galen R. Frysinger of 1933 lava rock structure at Jerome Cooperative Creamery

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Jerome Cooperative Creamery
• H.T. Pugh
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Jerome County, Idaho
• Ferndale, California
• Glossary of agriculture