The family of Samuel Benjamin "Ben" Skinner[1] operated a dairy farm on a portion of their vast land holdings in northeast Florida beginning in the early 1920s.
During the late '50s the growing influence of grocery stores made it more difficult for small, independent dairies to remain financially solvent.
They had a distinct design with a pitched "butterfly" roof, and each identical store was painted orange, brown, and white, incorporated a drive-through that could be approached from both sides, and used aluminum sliding glass doors which were a novelty at the time.
From the late 1980s to mid-1990s the company concentrated on the wholesale side of the fluid milk business expanding distribution statewide, and to lower southeastern states and the Caribbean.
[3] The land that constituted the dairy headquarters and farm was a sizable piece of property located off Bowden Road on the city's south side.