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Milk Bottle

2016-43-1

Glass milk bottle with round lip top, circular bottom and relatively square-shaped sides. Printed in red on the front of the bottle is a small farm and post sign reading "Toll Gate Dairy Farms inc". Above the post is "The sign of quality" and below the farm is "For those who demand the best". On the back of the bottle reads "We appreciate your patronage. Thank you". Impressed around the bottom edge of the bottle is "sealed M/C S/ one quart/ LIQ-X1488/II Rec." Impressed on the bottom of the bottle is "II/E-61"

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.

• Toll Gate Farm

C. 1940

Width: 8.875 in. Diameter: 3 in.

• glass
• ink