Consumer History | Church and Dwight — Baking Soda from a Kitchen off Tenth Avenue
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Consumer History | Church and Dwight — Baking Soda from a Kitchen off Tenth Avenue
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People treat Church and Dwight as a New Jersey campus that always sold Arm and Hammer in an orange box.
The first factory was a kitchen.
In 1846 Dr. Austin Church, a Yale-trained physician born in East Haddam in 1799, joined his brother-in-law John Dwight of South Hadley.
They began packing bicarbonate of soda by hand into one-pound paper bags in Dwight's farmhouse kitchen.
The first year's output was about two thousand pounds.
In 1847 they formalized John Dwight and Company and moved the work to New York, just west of Tenth Avenue at Twenty-Fifth Street in what is now Chelsea.
Bicarbonate of soda replaced pearlash and potash as the household alkali that made bread rise.
A Brooklyn plant later did the heavy making. The Front Street office in Rochester kept the books for a time.
In 1867 James A. Church brought the arm-and-hammer mark over from his Vulcan Spice Mills, the Roman smith striking an anvil.
The two family firms, Church and Company and John Dwight and Company, merged in 1896 as Church and Dwight Co.
The cow brand and the hammer brand sat on the same soda for a generation of mail-order recipe booklets.
Headquarters now sit in Ewing Township, New Jersey. A Green River, Wyoming, plant opened in 1968 on trona reserves.
The mechanism that survived is still the 1846 kitchen product: a cheap, stable alkali sold under a mark people already trusted for something else.
Photo: Tenth Avenue at Twenty-Third Street, two blocks south of the 1847 New York address, via Wikimedia Commons.
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