DAIRY FARM & BAKERY
Our History
1896 The first deed was recorded in the North Smithfield, RI Town Hall by George Wright.
1900 Milk was being delivered to houses in cans.
1914 The homestead was built and the family grew.
1930's Pasteurization became necessary. A dairy or milk processing plant was set-up. Ernest Wright took over the business and built up a successful home delivery route of milk and cream in glass bottles.
1970's Ernest sold the business to his son Edward Wright. Edward opened a retail farm store, to sell the milk and eggs, and discontinued the home delivery route.
1972 Claire Wright started making pies in her home to be sold in the small retail store.
1976 The official bakery opened.
1980's The bakery steadily grew to incorporate a full line of baked products, cream pastries and decorated cakes. Numerous additions were added to accommodate the growing bakery and store.
1996 Large addition added to dairy and bakery. Total reorganizing of building including new rack oven, mixing room, loading dock and 2000 gallon bulk tank.
2001 New 120 cow freestall barn built.
2005 New retail store added that includes storage and office space upstairs, the old store becomes much needed bakery production space.
2009 New state of the art milking barn is built, large viewing window allows the public to view the cows being milked; daily 3pm-5pm.
2013 New 2400 square foot Shop built.
2014 Old barn taken down, new red storage barn built. Driveway re-routed to make way for new barn.
2015 New 4000 square foot barn built, function will be new bakery space and storage.
2017 New Cake Shop is completed, featuring wedding consultation room and viewing area to see our decorators at work.
2017-2019 We hosted pop-up ice cream shops, serving our ice cream out of our cake shop.
2019 We purchased a 1966 Streamline trailer and had it renovated into an ice cream shop. This was the first summer we offered our ice cream scooped, all summer long.
2021 Opened our 2nd Streamline Trailer “The Wright Scoop” in Warren, RI.
