Five Minute Histories: Cloverland Dairy

Have you ever noticed the giant milk bottle on North Monroe St? It doesn’t take long to figure out that this was a dairy facility-Cloverland Dairy to be exact. Beginning with its home deliveries around the city, Cloverland’s story is intertwined with beloved Maryland history. Our favorite fried chicken spot, Royal Farms, started when Cloverland wanted to sell milk in stores. And in 1965, Cloverland hired a young Jim Henson to make a tv commercial featuring a puppet cow! Thanks for watching and see you next week with another video.
This is our series called "Five Minute Histories." Every week, we’ll record a short video about a different historic place in Baltimore and post it on our Facebook page and TH-cam channel.
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[@augustajones-stokes7044]

I still have my hinged top metal insulated box for home delivery. I now use it for package delivery.

[@tvcdboombox1]

A big treat when I was a boy in the 1950’s was to visit the Cloverland Dairy farm in Baltimore County.

[@rosalynarrington6818]

I remember that and I remember the milk man!!!! 😊💕🥛

[@baltimoreheritage1006]

We do too! 😀

[@deborahsaunders7102]

I am a milkman’s daughter. My Dad worked for Sealtest Dairy, which had a facility on Guilford St., which later moved out to Cockeysville. Our family tested ice cream flavors for Sealtest, which was really fun!

[@baltimoreheritage1006]

Testing ice cream flavors sounds like a dream job!

[@wilshade]

We had the cows. But, when I was little in 1963, Cloverland delivered pasteurized milk for me. I remember my little self asking the question. The deliveries stopped soon after that.

[@baxter6504]

So you're the reason why milk is no longer deliverered? LoL!!! 😆😄😅😂

[@wilshade]

Yep. 3 year old me stopped the whole shebang.

[@jacquelinecapel5282]

I didn't know about the Jim Henson connection! Very Cool!

[@wilshade]

Ron Howard just finished a documentary about Henson. It'll be interesting to see if the Cloverland cow is part of it.

[@mikeblueblaze]

The glass bottles definitely had a better taste

[@Music777111]

I still have my stuffed cow with the bell.

[@johnodonnell9842]

I remember as a kid going on field trips to Cloverland Farms on Dulaney Valley Rd near Loch Raven reservoir. Its since been torn down and turned into a neighborhood. I didn't hear any reference to that in the video?

[@baltimoreheritage1006]

Not in the video, but yes, we remember visiting the dairy, too, watching the cows being milked, and getting cups of ice cream as a treat.

[@sdilldetwiler]

@@baltimoreheritage1006 That field trip to Cloverland Dairy Farm is one of my favorite childhood memories, around 1961. A calf licked my boot!

[@michelenovack575]

I remember when Wilkens Dairy had the farm next to the Beltway. Lots of cows grazing on that big hillside. Why were the local dairies doing home delivery back then? At one point Cloverland packaged their milk in plastic bags (maybe by the quart). That didn’t last too long. Was High’s just a retailer?

[@rckrtcrg1246]

While my family just had the metal hinged box for milk deliveries, others in our community had small compatrments built into the wall separating their carport and kitchen so they could retrieve the delivered bottles from inside their house.

[@Taconix]

5:20 The Royal Farms truck from the late 1930s, early 1940s is well before the merger of Royal Dunloggin and Cloverland Farms in the 1950s.

[@Taconix]

Around 1943 Dunloggin Farms Dairy joined with the Royal Farms Dairy (located at Braddish Avenue and Baker St.) and became the Royal Dunloggin Dairy.

[@Baltimore_World]

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[@baltimoreheritage1006]

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[@Baltimore_World]

@@baltimoreheritage1006 thanks I did see this episode in your Playlist

[@CringeBlunderman]

Why does the narrator keep saying melk??? It is M*I*L*K Milk with an I not an E. I never heard it pronounced that way when i was growing up in Baltimore.

[@nancyherold6676]

I have always pronounced it melk, didn't realize until I read your comment. I and my ancestors are Baltimore bred so I am not sure if it is peculiar to Baltimore but I think it is.

[@michaelbrand8279]

@baltimoreheritage1006 Thanks for another well-researched & informative video with lots of old photos! (I still remember the metal milk-delivery boxes that people would put outside their homes!) BTW, I was looking at some of the other long-time Baltimore businesses at the above website (legacy-business-program), and I was surprised to read that "as of 2022, Dipasquale’s is no longer operating out of this building [on Gough St.], but it is still in business in other locations in Baltimore." When I used to live in Laurel, I would often visit Dipasquale's when I was in Highlandtown, and I really liked that place! Why did that location close?!?