
Founded:
Location: 19 Ward St, Vernon, New York, USA
Other names:
Dairy Lea
Overview
The Dairymen's League was a farmers' cooperative founded in 1907, concentrated in NY, later becoming the Dairylea Cooperative Inc.
Details
The Dairymen’s League was a farmers’ cooperative founded in 1907 that became Dairylea Cooperative Inc.. The cooperative’s operations were widespread in New York. In 1923, they adopted the trade name Dairylea, and they are still in business today, serving more than 2,000 dairy farm families. In Vernon, the cooperative had its plant on Ward Street. Gene Butler described working at the plant in his book “Memories of a Small Town Boy”. Dairylea had a retail store at the corner of Route 5 and Ward Street in the 1980s and 1990s, a popular ice cream scoop shop. It later becoming another market, eventually becoming a new location for Foodland. As of 2025, the location is now a larger facility run by H.P. Hood.


