- Collection:
- Georgia Historical Markers
- Title:
- Banks Dairy Farm historical marker
- Creator:
- Seibert, David, 1941-2020
- Date of Original:
- 1996/2014
- Subject:
- Historical markers--Georgia--Bulloch County
Dairy farms--Georgia - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Bulloch County, Statesboro, 32.44879, -81.78317
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Location: Banks Dairy Road N.W. of Nesmith Rd., Statesboro
Text of marker: "BANKS DAIRY FARM. The Banks Dairy Farm was operated on this site and included 900 acres of cultivated land combined with dairying operations. David Callaway Banks, born April 8, 1882, in Bulloch County, Georgia, was the founder of Banks Dairy Farm and The City Dairy Company. D. C. Banks married Sarah Juliann Brannen in 1906 and in 1908 purchased the first part of what was to become Banks Dairy Farm. In 1932 D. C. Banks purchased an adjoining farm from his father-in-law, James Gross Brannen, dramatically expanding the farm. The main concentration of the Banks Dairy Farm was dairy operations with most of the milk going to the family owned City Dairy Company. The farm also produced other livestock, wheat, cotton, tobacco, peanuts, watermelons and corn. Each of the children of D. C. and Annie Banks performed specific jobs on the farm under the overall supervision of D. C. Osborne was in charge of the plant in town, Lonnie in charge of milking, Edwin in charge of feed crops, and Henry handled milk. Other children included Nina, Grace, Martha Ann and Bernard. The dairying operations of the farm ended in 1982 with the sale to Coble Dairy. Supported by the Jack N. and Addie D. Averitt Foundation" - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_ghm_banks-dairy-farm
- Digital Object URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_ghm_banks-dairy-farm
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- Please contact markers@davidseibert.com about commercial reproduction and use
- Holding Institution:
- Digital Library of Georgia
- Rights:
-
