After his initial company failed, he and a new financial backer formed the New York Condensed Milk Company in 1857 at Wassaic, NY. Shortly after the Civil War erupted, Borden received a War ...

In New York City, three of the largest milk companies, Borden’s Condensed Milk Company, Sheffield Farms, and U.S. Dairy Products Company, sold two-thirds of all the fluid, or drinking quality, milk in ...

By the time Borden invented condensed milk, writes Sam Moore for Farm Collector, he’d created an amphibious vehicle (it crashed), served meals of his own invention that included bonemeal bread ...

He and his partner opened a plant in upstate New York in 1861, and prospered by supplying condensed milk to the Union Army. It didn’t change its name to Borden Dairy Co. until 1919. By 1930 ...

Gail Borden is widely considered the true pioneer behind sweetened condensed milk. The catalyst for his invention was a trip between London to New York on board a ship that carried cows for fresh ...

I grew up with sweetened condensed milk because my mother loved to pour it over Saloon Pilot crackers. Then in the 1850s, Gail Borden canned condensed milk and it became a military ration.

In the early 1900s, Gail Borden and his company made condensed milk in Walden, Orange County, for what became known as the Borden Dairy Company. Now the property that manufactured the shelf-stable ...