Despite changing hands a few times, the company is still in business and remains family-owned and –operated to this day and has grown from only six to more than 30 ice cream flavors!īack in 2011, a spokesperson for MSU cited Hudsonville Dairy as one of the many local products sold at the Brody Square dining facility and praised it as a campus favorite. Although, it wasn’t until 1926 that Hudsonville produced ice cream in the summer months, with the invention of a continuous process freezer. Together, they established a physical location in Hudsonville, Ottawa Co., MI where the ice cream side of the business took off. Hudsonville Ice Cream, LLC began as a local farmer’s cooperative in 1895 who joined forces to sell products such as milk, butter, and cream. We love to see that our local newspaper was making an impact even then! Secondly, it tells us more about the people who lived here and confirms that this newspaper was in circulation on MSU’s campus. First, it has a date! While many of artifacts from this excavation suggest an era extending from the 1930-60s, having an exact date is one sure way to verify our findings and help form new hypotheses or research paths. While it may not always be easy to find original sources, we lucked out this week and were able to not only find the original newspaper, but the exact page that our #artifactoftheweek came from! This scrap of newspaper came from our Service Road excavation last summer and is extremely interesting for several reasons. Finding the right newspaper could have once taken weeks – and now is one click away with a few choice key words in a search engine. Thank you, technology! In the age of smartphones and watches – and who knows what else – it can be easy to forget just how much the structure of research has changed. Call-out box shows same article as on the fragment recovered from Service Road. Right: Archival image of Lansing State Journal, Wednesday February 12, 1958. Newspaper is likely the Lansing State Journal. Left: Tattered newspaper fragment, dated Wednesday Februrecovered from Service Road Construction, 2020.
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