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Cheese was one of the many supplies that the Mayflower took to America.
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Swiss immigrants settled in Green County Wisconsin and started manufacturing foreign cheese in America
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The first cheese factory in the US was built by Jesse Williams in Oneida County, New York
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Wisconsin farmers believed that the key to future survival was in fact cheese. So they opened in 1868 the first Limburger plant.
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Now 3,923 diary factories nationwide which were reported to have made 216 million pounds of cheese that year valued at 17 million.
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surge in consumer demand with annual production exceeding 2 billion poundsa year by the beginning of the 1990s