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Show Memorial to America's First Cheese Factory Unveiled It ' ' Kh' wVrfe: U :; ';X4v ',V Cr" - - u ?! ',, ; i I - , j , s r fir !r '1 v ' . - " . .''. , f . , , 1 ' - -1 ' 1 p. , - . ' i ' - ' , " " J ' -,'," In the costume of 1850, this old fashioned dairy maid helped to dedicate the memonal to the first cheese factory in America, at Rome; New York DAIRYMEN from all parts of the United States gathered in Rome, New York, this past week, when a memorial on the site of America's first cheese factory was unveiled. A pageant in the costume of 1850, a parade of ox-carts, and a colorful ceremony preceded the dedication of the bronze and stone memorial commemorating the birth of the cheese factory system in the United States. The nation's first cheese factory fac-tory was built in Rome, in 1S51, by Jesse Williams, a dairy farmer 01 that community, son of a Revolutionary Revolu-tionary War hero. The ceremonies at Rome served to inaugurate National Cheese Week for the nation, November 8 to 14. It was from the small beginnings at the cheese factory in Rome that the entire cheese factory system in this country grew. The bronze tablet and replica of the old cheese factory were pre-! pre-! sented to the city of Rome by j Oeorge L. ?oon?.. secretary of the 'National Cheese Institute. |