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The Dairy

 

Þ      Over 5,000 cows are milked twice a day on

Þ      approximately 90 farms. Their milk is then shipped to Marburger Dairy. (Marburger farm alone milks over 150 cows).

Þ      Four days a week 25,000+ gallons of milk are processed, bottled, cooled, shipped, or delivered by over 100 employees.

Þ      Over 4,000 home deliveries are made weekly.

Þ      Over 2,000 sales of dairy products go to wholesale outlets such as schools, hospitals, nursing homes, restaurants, institutions, independent, and chain grocery stores.

Þ     George Marburger Sr. arrived in Baltimore from Germany in November of 1838.

Þ     First he settled in the Zelienople area, but a year later he and his family moved to Evans City. He married in 1840. In 1842, he purchased 100 acres at $1.25 per acre.

Þ     His son, Adam, eventually took over the farm and turned it into “Marburger Stock Farm” where they raised Belgium and Percheron draft horses, shipped from Europe.

Þ     By 1923, the days of working horses on farms were ending. The farm switched to  dairy farming and Holstein cows.

Þ     In 1938, Adam and his wife Georgia bought a small dairy at May Stop. The first day of operation produced three cases of quart bottles.

Þ     Milk was shipped to Pittsburgh via the Harmony Line streetcars.

Þ     The operation grew and a few years later the dairy was moved to the homestead farm where it remains today.

Þ     Adam’s sons Martin, Vernon, and Joe operated the dairy as partners until first the death of Joe in 1968, and Vernon in 1983.

Þ     Today, Martin along with his children: James, Margaret Wearing, and Rita Reifenstein are the proprietors of the dairy.