Spring Branch Butter Factory Site

	Spring Branch Butter Factory Site
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Address restricted
Nearest city	Manchester, Iowa
Built	1872
NRHP reference No.	74000782
Added to NRHP	June 28, 1974

The Spring Branch Butter Factory Site is an archaeological site located in the vicinity of Manchester, Iowa, United States. John Stewart built the first commercial creamery in the state of Iowa at this location in 1872.^[3] He won the gold medal for the best butter at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876. Because of this, he made technological and managerial changes to his operation that transformed commercial butter making in the state. Stewart became the founding president of the Northern Iowa Butter and Cheese Association, which was headquartered in Manchester. As markets on the East Coast expanded "creamery grade" butter was shipped regularly between northeast Iowa and New York City. By 1889, commercial creameries had taken the place of the farm-based dairy in Iowa.^[3] The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.^[1]

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^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ Federal and state laws and practices restrict general public access to information regarding the specific location of this resource. In some cases, this is to protect archeological sites from vandalism, while in other cases it is restricted at the request of the owner. See: Knoerl, John; Miller, Diane; Shrimpton, Rebecca H. (1990), Guidelines for Restricting Information about Historic and Prehistoric Resources, National Register Bulletin, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, OCLC 20706997.
^ ^a ^b Patrick Nunnally. "From Churns to 'Butter Factories' ". State Historical Society of Iowa. Archived from the original on November 30, 2015. Retrieved November 21, 2017.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.

[ARCombinedNote-2] Federal and state laws and practices restrict general public access to information regarding the specific location of this resource. In some cases, this is to protect archeological sites from vandalism, while in other cases it is restricted at the request of the owner. See: Knoerl, John; Miller, Diane; Shrimpton, Rebecca H. (1990), Guidelines for Restricting Information about Historic and Prehistoric Resources, National Register Bulletin, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, OCLC 20706997.

[Nunnally-3] Patrick Nunnally. "From Churns to 'Butter Factories' ". State Historical Society of Iowa. Archived from the original on November 30, 2015. Retrieved November 21, 2017.

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