TCCA's new Decatur, Ill., ice cream manufacturing plant is part of a strategy to meet growing East Coast demand.
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Even before the Tillamook County Creamery Association’s (TCCA) founding in 1909, its hometown of Tillamook, Ore., was innovating ways to bring dairy to the masses.
That’s how the brand’s ship logo on each package came to be: Tillamook County dairy farmers in the mid-1800s struggled to deliver their cheese and butter products to Portland across rough, mountainous terrain, so they looked to the water for a path forward, the company says. After trial, error, and a few unfortunate wrecks, these dairy farmers had themselves a seaworthy ship ready for the journey. It was dubbed The Morning Star of Tillamook on January 1, 1855, and soon began the journey to deliver its first batch of Tillamook dairy to Portland, by way of the Columbia River.
