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===First Cheese Factory=== In 1851, [[Jesse Williams (cheesemaker)|Jesse Williams]] founded the first cheese factory in the United States at Rome.<ref>{{cite news |title=Is One Museum Honoring Cheese Really Enough? |first=Danny |last=Hakim |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/10/nyregion/10cheese.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=April 10, 2006 |access-date=2012-06-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141213144153/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/10/nyregion/10cheese.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 |archive-date=December 13, 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref> Williams also developed the process used today for large-scale cheese manufacturing.<ref>{{cite journal|title=The Fort Stanwix Administrative History: Executive Summary|work=The Public Historian|volume=31|number=2|year=2009|pages=71β78|access-date=25 February 2014|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/tph.2009.31.2.71|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180909000209/https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/tph.2009.31.2.71 |archive-date=2018-09-09 }}</ref> Fifteen years later, New York State had about 500 cheese factories operating in a similar fashion.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Oxford Companion to Cheese |first1=Catherine |last1=Donnelly |page=766 |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2016 |url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-companion-to-cheese-9780199330881 |access-date=2025-03-25 }}</ref> During the later 19th century, there were numerous dairy farms in the area and throughout the Mohawk Valley. Many shipped their milk and cheese to customers in New York City.
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