Franklin Creamery, Inc. Stock Certificate

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Franklin Creamery, Inc. - 1960 - Minnesota - RARE

Franklin Creamery, Inc. - 1960 - Minnesota

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Product Code: SC2032

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This rare Franklin Creamery, Inc. stock certificate was issued in 1960 and is hand-signed by the company president. Franklin Creamery was founded as the Franklin Co-Operative Creamery Association in 1919 when Minneapolis creamery workers tried to unionize with milk delivery workers for better pay and a shorter work week. When one creamery plant went of strike, all the creameries in Minneapolis would shut down leaving the city without a supply of milk. When they discovered the trouble this caused families with children, they created the Co-Op.

They constructed a massive plan which was completed in 1921 and supplied customers with milk, cream, butter, buttermilk, cottage cheese and ice cream with 18 horse-drawn milk wagons. At it's peak they supplied over 50,000 households daily and were responsible for 80% of the milk supplied in the Twin Cities. Hugely successful, they employed over 400 people and even sponsored 166 local baseball teams providing uniforms, refs and trophies.

In 1960 they changed their name to Franklin Creamery, Inc. After WWII, household refrigerators replaced iceboxes and small local stores were slowly replaced with large supermarkets. The need for the delivery of milk dwindled and the company shut its doors soon after.