Friday, April 19, 2013

Gail Borden's Condensed Milk

Source: Oblong to the Hudson by Harry Wirth; 1976
Information here is for archival purposes, and is not current



Gail Borden, once appointed mayor of Galveston, Texas by Sam Houston, later spent his life savings securing the patent on an 1853 invention which made condensed milk. He opened his first factory in Amenia, where due to the demand raised by the Civil War, he soon became a millionaire. In 1865 he built his second plant on the shore of the Croton River in Brewster, on a former mill site. The present structure was built by Borden's son. John, in 1879.

Brewster

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