Borden Milk Plant in Sycamore, Illinois

From Images of America:  Sycamore.

The Borden Milk Plant opened in 1907 and was a thriving industry until 1932 when a grass fire started at the nearby Chicago and North Western Railway tracks and spread to and destroyed the facility.  The tracks were used to take the milk to Chicago and other places.

Milk was hauled from area farms in metal cans to the plant in Sycamore where it was poured into a large tube accessible by an outside ramp and then carried by gravity into the plant and then put into glass bottles.

The plant was not rebuilt after that.  But there is still a Borden Avenue in Sycamore.

--DaCoot