Atlas Obscura
Home of the Big Cheese in Sandy Creek, New York
A roadside marker on a rural New York highway in Oswego County commemorates the bizarre story of a 1,400-pound wheel of cheese that became a presidential spectacle. On a quiet stretch of Route 11 in Sandy Creek, New York, a historical marker stands as a modest testament to a truly monumental piece of dairy. It reads, “Home of the Big Cheese,” a simple title for a story that is anything but. Thi…
19th-century dairy farmer, creator of colossal cheese