• The Velvet Ice Cream Company started in Utica in 1914, but quickly grew in popularity throughout the region.

  • Lebanese immigrant Joseph Dager created the original recipes which launched Velvet Ice Cream in 1914.

  • One of the Dager grandsons operates the Velvet Ice Cream Wagon.

  • Joseph’s son Charles in 1930, the time when he was working hard for regulatory changes that would make it possible to ship Velvet Ice Cream all over Ohio.

  • The third mail on the current site was the one that stood from 1865 to 1986. It was the one dubbed Ye Olde Mill in 1930, which it was converted to a dance hall and roller skating rink.

  • This picture from around 1975 shows the Ye Olde Mill waterwheel.

  • Fire destroyed the third mill in 1986, but the fourth mill opened on the same foundation in 1987 and remains popular today.

  • The current mill boasts the only ice cream museum in Ohio.

  • Velvet Ice Cream’s Ye Olde Mill attracts over 100,000 visitors annually.

  • The mill pond is a favorite venue for ducks and geese.

  • Cherry cookie pie sundae.

  • Fishing contests and other games abound during special events.

  • Rigorous quality testing of the product requires extensive sampling and, perhaps, wearing.

  • The strawberry cream puff sundae.

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