Tillamook County was full of cheese factories in 1926! Some were privately owned; more and more were cooperatives that belonged to the Tillamook County Creamery Association. By 1925, cheese production was second in the state, per Joseph E. Taylor III in his book “Persistent Callings.”
(Map credit: Read Bain in his 1926 Oregon State University thesis, The Growth of an Institution – A Sociological Interpretation of the Tillamook County Creamery Association)
