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Milk Bottle

2016-44-1

Cream top milk bottle. Printed on the front in maroon ink is "Toll Gate" surrounded by two diagonal lines on each side and "Farms/Litchfield/Conn." Around the cream top, also printed in maroon, is "Store" 3 times. Impressed around the bottom edge is "sealed II T.C.S-4/ M/C/ One quart liquid is registered". Impressed on the bottom is a circle and "E47."

Toll Gate Farm began in 1939 in Chestnut Hill Road, formed by Preston and Selma Davenport. The farmhouse and barns were constructed c.1940, and the farm housed a purebred Ayrshire herd. The farm processed their own milk (pasteurized, and later homogenized), first at the farm and then in a dairy bar on Torrington Road which sold milk, cream, cottage cheese, and ice cream and contained a bottling center. The bar was open from 1944 to 1957. The farm eventually supplemented production with raw milk from other local herds, and delivered as far as Winsted and New Milford. The dairy stopped operation in the 1970s.

• Tollgate Farm

c.1940

Height: 9.5 in. Diameter: 4 in.

• glass
• ink