Reid's Dairy


Company Names, addresses, dates:
  Reid's Dairy, Chesterbrook, VA

Notes:
Chesterbrook is a neighborhood in McLean, Virginia.

The Reid's Dairy in Chesterbrook was active in 1922, as they put a help-wanted ad in the newspaper. The ad said Reid's Dairy was located in "Langley, near McLean Va.". 1
If I correctly interpreted the date code on the bottle below, the dairy was still active in 1931.

Horatio Reid Jr (1896-1969)2 was the only dairy farmer in Chesterbrook that I could find, so he's likely the one who ran this dairy.
The 1910 & 1920 US Census lists Horatio Jr working on his father's "Truck Farm". A Truck Farm is a farm that produces vegetables.
The 1930 US Census lists Horatio Jr as a Dairyman, living on Chesterbrook Road.
On March 6, 1932, his wife Marie Washington Reid was electocuted while talking on the telephone, when a tree fell on both a power line and a telephone line.3
In 1935 he got re-married to a woman from Orlando Florida4, and the 1940 US Census showed he and his wife had moved to Orlando.


Bottles

reid_01 This is a 7.25" (1 pint) clear bottle embossed:
above slug plate: ONE PINT / LIQUID
round slug plate: REID'S DAIRY / RAW MILK / CHESTERBROOK, VA.
rear shoulder: SEALED / B1
rear heel: 22 B 31
The "22 B 31" mark on the heel likely indicates the bottle was made by the Buck Glass company of Baltimore MD in the year 1931.

1 The Washington DC Evening Star Newspaper, 2-Mar-1922, page 31
2 Find-a-grave for Horatio Reid Jr
3 Washington DC Evening Star newspaper, 07-Mar-1932, page A-6
4 Washington DC Evening Star newspaper, 01-Oct-1935, page A-11


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