Cutler Creamery
Photo is from 1962 newspaper, caption under picture reads:
" When the Cutler Creamery was destroyed December 10 (1962), it was the second major fire at the same location--but few people living today can recall the first disaster. Soon after the village was laid out in 1873, the Anchor Flouring Mills (right), owned by Joseph Brown, became a flourishing industry.
About 10 years later the mill was burned to the ground and Brown sold the location to the late C.E. Gemmill, who established the creamery, which was operated by his sons, Ralph and Kenneth of Cutler and Edward of Steeleville, when it went up in flames. The brothers are awaiting an insurance settlement before deciding whether to restore the dairy industry.
The home (left) built by Joseph Brown and later occupied by the Norton
family still stands in Cutler. This picture is the property of Brown's grandson, Gerald Morgan of Du Quoin. It was given to him recently by an aunt, Mrs. Nettie Perkins of Carbondale, widow of Dr. L.W. Perkins and only survivor among the 14 children of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Brown. She is a sister of the late Mrs. Lina E. Brown Feaman, who, with her husband, Philip Feaman, for years operated a drug store in Cutler".
The house remains standing today.
