The first cheese market in the United States was established in 1861 at Little Falls. From April through December, local farmers, cheese factory representatives, and brokers for major American and English markets gathered at Ann and Albany Street to sample cheeses and negotiate prices. From 1864 to 1870, Little Falls was the largest interior cheese market in the world, and it remained a center for cheese production well into the twentieth century. America’s first Dairy Board of Trade was established there in 1871 as a producer organization that coordinated the sales and distribution of dairy products nationwide and was soon emulated by other associations. In 1866, more than 380,000 pounds of Herkimer County cheese were delivered to the railroad depot in a single day, with double rows of cheese-laden wagons lining the street for a quarter-mile in each direction, and in an average season twenty-five to thirty million pounds of cheese were sold there.