Label from a milk bottle from Miller's Dairy, one of the best-known of Culver's handful of local dairies. The Miller family continues to live and work in the Culver area, though the dairy of course has been non-operational for decades.
A Cloverleaf Dairy delivery truck from the 1930s or 40s. The Cloverleaf was one of several dairies operating in town in the early part of the twentieth century. It, along with Miller Dairy, was probably one of the better-known dairies in town and was located on Plymouth Street at the intersection
of Jefferson, site of today's Elizabeth's Garden.
Cloverleaf Dairy Truck Wreck
The wreck of a Cloverleaf
Dairy truck at the corner of Lake Shore Drive and Plymouth streets in the summer of 1942 made the Culver Citizen's front page.
Kenneth Miller is profiled here in the Culver Citizen in 1940. His father started the
Miller Dairy near the turn of the century and Kenneth passed it down to his son, Kenneth Jr., who still lives in Culver and delivered milk to
homes into the 1980s.
Harold Baker was business
manager of the Clover Leaf Dairy, as pictured in a 1938 profile (left) and an October, 1930 profile (right) in the Culver Citizen.
Harold Baker was business
manager of the Clover Leaf Dairy, as pictured in a 1938 profile (left) and an October, 1930 profile (right) in the Culver Citizen.
From 1931: the prominent dairy men of Culver.
From the Nov. 23, 1938 Culver Citizen: the fire that destroyed the quot;largest and oldest" dairy farm in the area, which belonged to the Newman family, who nonetheless continued in prominence in dairy farming. The Newman property was a few miles southwest of Culver.