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Cheesemaking room at Limerick Cheese Plant in Dexter

Worker tending to equipment at the Limerick Cheese Plant. Late 1950s. Dexter, NY. Photo donated by Dexter village historian John Stano whose mother, aunt and uncle worked at the plant, which closed in the mid-1960s.

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