Antique Old Primitive Americana Brock Hall Dairy Co Milk Can, New England 20s

  
This is a RARE and historic Antique Old Primitive Americana Brock Hall Dairy Co Milk Can, likely dating to the 1920s - 1930s. This piece is hand painted in a cream-colored paint, and is embossed with the words: BROCK HALL DAIRY CO. " Additionally, on the top of the lid, the embossed words read: "...

This early New England dairy was founded by Charles Raymond Brock, and the Hall family in the early 20th century, which decades later produced the famed Hamden, Connecticut poet-laureate, Donald Hall. Original antique pieces from the Brock Hall Dairy Co. Are very rare, with the exception of glass milk bottles, which periodically surface on the market in various states of condition. Approximately 25 inches tall x 13 inches wide x 13 inches deep.

Good condition for nearly a century of age and use, with expected oxidation and paint loss throughout please see photos. Several early Brock Hall Dairy Co. Signs have recently been included in the holdings of the Hamden Historical Society of Connecticut. Due to the large size and heavy weight of this piece, S&H will be unavoidably high. If you like what you see, I encourage you to make an Offer. Please check out my other listings for more wonderful and unique artworks!

About the Brock Hall Dairy. This dairy farm was once located in New Haven, CT but has long been gone.

The dairy was located in New Haven CONN. East of West Haven Milford Fairfield Stratford Shelton Trumbull & Bridgeport - south of Waterbury Hamden Wallingford Meriden New Britain & Hartford.. The theory on the color of the bottles was that it blocked sunlight from damaging the milk within. A scion of the Hall family, Donald Hall, a Hamden native and Harvard graduate, became a distinguished poet and Poet Laureate of the United States. The old Brock-Hall Dairy building at 1204 Whitney Avenue appears to be boarded up in a July 11, 1978, photo that was shot at the same time as the photo of the Whitney Theater that was posted last week.

The same view 34 years later is devoid of any buildings, just trees. A five-story condominium building was constructed further back off Whitney Avenue at the same address in 1985. Brock and Hall were influential members of the Whitneyville Volunteer Fire Association from its inception in 1910. While the new Putnam Avenue firehouse was under construction from October 1926 until May of 1927, Co. 3's apparatus was housed at the home of H.

Hall at 116 Putnam Avenue. We moved our [1910 Locomobile and 1915 Maxim] from the old Fire house to H. Hall's garage on Thursday Nov. Was moved back to New quaters (sic) Saturday May 15, 1927. The gasoline shortage during World War II required the dairy to employ horse drawn milk wagons once again for home deliveries in the Whitneyville area, a practice that remained in effect for a couple of years after the war. The Brock-Hall dairy ceased operations in the late 1970s and the building was razed shortly thereafter. The Brock-Hall Dairy Company Is a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Connecticut with its principal place of business at Hamden, Connecticut.

Its main plant is located at Hamden where all of the processing of the products is done. The Company operates in and serves 123 communities all in the area of the cities of New Haven, Bridgeport and Waterbury. It serves many thousands of retail customers and several hundred wholesale customers. For a short time after purchasing the business of the Randall Dairy Company, the Company did some processing of products at Bridgeport, but for several years has not done any processing there. In September, 1944, the Company took over all of the assets and assumed all of the liabilities of the company and dissolved said corporation and processing of dairy products at Waterbury was discontinued.

Since then all of the processing done by the Company is performed at the Hamden plant. The Company employs 41 retail and wholesale route salesmen at the Hamden plant, 19 at the Waterbury branch and 12 at the Bridgeport branch.

At the Waterbury branch there is employed, in addition, a manager, 3 girls for office work, 3 route jumpers and 3 maintenance men. The Company maintains a uniform price scale for its products in all areas served. The wages and general working conditions of the various classifications of employees are uniform throughout the Company. Time Is Running Out for Small Dairy Farms.

I find that most people today have very little connection to farming or ranching. When I grew up in the late 1960s and 1970s, there seemed to be a general sense that most people knew where their food came from. In my youth in suburban Connecticut, there was agriculture all around the area. There were truck farms all over the area. Today those farms are housing developments.

Back in 1971, there was a small fluid milk plant in our town, Brock Hall. They would deliver milk every week to our door. We had an insulated metal box on the porch which fit four brown glass gallon containers.

Today it seems people have the idea that food comes from the grocery store and not a family farm. I looked up what has happened in the Connecticut dairy industry since I was a kid. In 1975 there were 817 dairy farms in Connecticut. By 2018 there were barely 100 remaining. Hamden native Donald Hall, the former U. Poet Laureate and 2011 recipient of the National Medal of Arts, is returning to Hamden to attend a special event in his honor at the Miller Memorial Library complex. 16, the Hamden Public Library, in conjunction with the Hamden Historical Society, the Connecticut Poetry Society, the Hamden Arts Commission, the Town of Hamden, Hamden High School, and the Friends of the Library, will host an evening with the poet in Thornton Wilder Hall. Hall will be introduced by Connecticut Poet Laureate Dick Allen, and there will be special presentations by the historian Eric Lehman and by Hamden's Mayor Scott Jackson. This celebration is free and is open to the public and it is hoped that many Hamden residents and those from surrounding communities will join the library and other sponsors in welcoming Hall back to Hamden for this evening event. Many of Hall's earliest memories are from Hamden and it was his experiences growing up in the Hamden community that helped shape his poetry and his unique way of looking at and describing the world around him. His family owned and operated Brock-Hall Dairy which sent out bottled milk to many families in Hamden and neighboring communities. As a very young child, Hall lived on Coram Street in Spring Glen, he and his family then moved to Winette Street, and later to Ardmore Street. Hall went to elementary school at Spring Glen Grammar School (which has been replaced with the new Spring Glen Elementary School) and later attended Hamden High School. At the age of 14, Hall decided that he wanted to be a poet.

In a recent interview, Hall said that there were many things that sparked his interest in poetry. Poe, my meeting at the Boy scouts, my trying to be a romantic figure. Actually I think that my friend from the Boy Scouts was most important!

The friend from Boy Scouts was a 16 year old named Dave Potter who also loved poetry. This friend called writing poetry his profession. Hall also had other childhood friends who he believes influenced his poetry. "In High School I became friends with a bunch of guys from State Street, one of whom I have stayed in touch with - Gene Morris, " said Hall. After his sophomore year in high school, Hall went to Philip Exeter Academy, later he went to both Harvard and Oxford Universities. Now when asked about elementary school, he said: Driving past I remember eight years! Probably my fondest memory is my third grade teacher. I also remember the little library and taking out very, very grown-up books, when I was still pretty young.

Hall also remembers other things about Hamden. The house at Ardmore Street, which I kept visiting until my mother's 90th birthday. She lived alone there many years. The walk to the grammar school, the walk to the high school. The old Brock-Hall Dairy on Whitney Avenue in Whitneyville.

Of course the Graveyard where both of my parents are. Over the years, Hall has written many marvelous and remarkable poems, some of them about Hamden.

One of these poems - "The Sleeping Giant" - is especially rich with wonderful imagery. Hall wrote about Hamden's well-known landmark: I was afraid that the waking arm would break/From the loose earth and rub against his eyes/A fist of trees, and the whole country tremble/In the exultant labor of his rise. When asked about the poem Hall said, When I wrote about'The Sleeping Giant' I thought I was writing about appearance and reality, childhood and the first bits of growing up. Another poem that he wrote about Hamden is called Christmas Eve in Whitneyville. " When asked whether his poetry and this poem in particular was a means of coming to grips with change in his life, he said, "Yes, poetry was a way of coping.

Christmas Eve in Whitneyville' certainly responded to my grief over my father - and possibly over loosing Hamden, at least a little? Writing was most, most, most important in grieving over the death of my wife here in 1995. For five years, I wrote about almost nothing else.

Change can be positive or negative. At any rate it is inevitable! This same poem somewhat startlingly describes the homes in Whitneyville as "cages" and jails. When asked whether life in the Hamden community made one feel trapped, Hall said that this was about how his father experienced society's norms and societal rules in Hamden. I felt that my father's life had been circumstanced, by his own limitations and by limitations imposed on him. He spoke of not doing the things he wanted to do. Talking of cages and so on, I was principally thinking of his frustrations, which I conflated with suburban mores. Hall is the author of a number of books of essays, texts on literature and writing, biographies and children's books. Hall's 15th book of poetry, "The Back Chamber, " is due out Sept. In preparation for the celebration at the library on Sept. 16, the library will also offer a program Wednesday, Sept. 14, led by Yale Assistant Dean Mark Schenker who will present an overview of Hall's poetry. The program will take place at 7 p.

In the "Friends Room" at the Miller Memorial Library in Hamden. Hamden, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA. 18 Sep 1987 (aged 91).

New Haven County, Connecticut, USA. This item is in the category "Antiques\Primitives". The seller is "willsusa_utzeqm" and is located in this country: US.

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• Size Type/Largest Dimension: Large (Greater than 30in.)
• Type: Metal & Ironwork
• Signed: Signed
• Date of Creation: 1900-1949
• Style: Americana
• Original/Reproduction: Original
• Material: Metal
• Region of Origin: US-Northeast
• Maker: Connecticut