Warren County (PA) Genealogy
Blue Eye Skimming Station
Contributed by Betty Matteson Rhodes
The following 'short story' has been
contributed by site visitor Betty Matteson Rhodes. Betty has ancestors
from Spring Creek Township.
The Blue Eye Skimming Station
as told by Clyde Messenger (1891-1968) to Florence Little Tripp
(1903-1994)
"Blue Eye" is a location - namely a pretty good sized hill, called Blue
Eye Hill, north out of Spring Creek, PA, with Blue Eye Road, and Blue
Eye Run (a fork in the road) leading up over the hill.
"In 1903, William H. Messenger (b. 1869) of Warren, Pa, bought the Blue
Eye, the Bear Lake, and the Wrightsville Skimming Stations. The Blue
Eye Skimming Station was situated on a rise of ground on the west side
of the (Blue Eye) run so that the weight tank and storage tank
separated skim milk to the skim milk tank. For seven years all the
cream went into butter and was shipped to New York City.
Clyde Bassett operated it for awhile, then Tom Messenger ran it for the
last two years that it was in operation. Irvin Briggs painted the
creamery red. The building became part of the wood shed on the Roy
DeJean's farm on Baker Hill, Spring Creek."
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August 24, 2008 .
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