This photo shows Nestlé’s milk plant in Cass City, with its water tower, tall smokestacks and early automobiles out front. The handwritten caption identifies it as “Nestle Farm Products, Inc., Cass City, Mich.”
Cass City became a dairy-processing hub in the early 1900s. The site originally opened as the Hires Condensed Milk Co. in 1917, then Nestlé took over in 1922 and continued producing condensed milk there until 1953.
Does anyone remember family who worked there — or where this building sat on Church Street?
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