The following article appeared in The News-Messenger of Lyon County on March 5, 1909:

“Mr. Haas has completed the purchase of three lots on Main street at the corner of Fourth, and will immediately begin the erection of the new building for the Marshall Creamery company, which will be the largest and finest creamery and ice creamery plant in the northwest. The structure will be of solid brick, two stories high, 50 feet front with a depth of 100 feet.

The front and Fourth street side of the building will be of faced brick. The first story will provide for two complete industries, the making of creamery butter, and the manufacture of ice cream. There will be two deep wells, one for artesian flow and the other for soft water. The motive power will comprise four electric motors, with service day and night. The building will have a cement floor, and be equipped with steam heat, plumbing for water and sewage, lavatories, closets, etc. In the front will be a fine office and the second story will be used in the rear for storage purposes, and the front for private apartments.

Material for the structure has been ordered, and work will begin as soon as the weather will permit. Mr. Fulton has the contract for the building and is now busy with the plans.

The new location for the creamery will give it a great advantage in the shipment of its product over both lines of railroad, and will prove convenient for the public, as a wholesale and retail business will be conducted.”

The photograph featured this week from the Lyon County Museum’s collection is a real photo postcard postmarked May 1909. The photograph shows the Marshall Creamery Company building being constructed. The Marshall Creamery was later sold to the Marshall Farmers’ Co-operative Company, later known as Producers Co-Op Creamery, in 1923. The building was torn down in 1963 to make room for the construction of a new building for First National Bank (today the building is Wells Fargo).

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