HISTORY

In the early 1900’s, The Starland Dairy and The Savannah
Dairy became close neighbors on the north side of Victory Drive
situated on Bull Street and Drayton Street.
They serviced the growing city of
Savannah with their dairy
processing and bottling plants.

 

In 1932 The Savannah Dairy was
built on site at 2424 Drayton Street,
which is the same footprint of the
Drayton Arts Center today. In 1934,
the dairy changed hands and
became Foremost Dairies.
Foremost gained customers while
the city of Savannah grew in
population as evidenced in the 1950
telephone directory full page
advertisement stating “The finest in
Ice Cream and Old Fashioned French Deluxe”.
In 1968, Farmbest Foods, Inc. bought out Foremost and remained on location as a functioning Dairy until 1976.
The building then fell into ruin and was used as random warehousing, until 2004.