Our History

1896           The first deed was recorded in the North Smithfield, RI Town Hall by George Wright.

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1900            Milk was being delivered to houses in cans.

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1914             The homestead was built and the family grew.

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1930's          Pasteurization became necessary. A dairy or milk processing plant was set-up. Ernest Wright took over the business and                        built up a successful home delivery route of milk and cream in glass bottles.

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1970's          Ernest sold the business to his son Edward Wright. Edward opened a retail farm store, to sell the milk and eggs, and                                discontinued the home delivery route.

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1972             Claire Wright started making pies in her home to be sold in the small retail store.

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1976             The official bakery opened.

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1980's          The bakery steadily grew to incorporate a full line of baked products, cream pastries and decorated cakes. Numerous                              additions were added to accommodate the growing bakery and store.

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1996              Large addition added to dairy and bakery. Total reorganizing of building including new rack oven, mixing room, loading                           dock and 2000 gallon bulk tank.

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2001              New 120 cow freestall barn built.

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2005              New retail store added that includes storage and office space upstairs, the old store becomes much needed bakery                               production space.

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2009              New state of the art milking barn is built, large viewing window allows the public to view the cows being milked; daily                              3pm-5pm.

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2013               New 2400 square foot Shop built.

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2014                Old barn taken down, new red storage barn built. Driveway re-routed to make way for new barn.

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2015               New 4000 square foot barn built, function will be new bakery space and storage.

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2017               New Cake Shop is completed, featuring wedding consultation room and viewing area to see our decorators at work.

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2017-2019     We hosted pop-up ice cream shops, serving our ice cream out of our cake shop.

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2019                We purchased a 1966 Streamline trailer and had it renovated into an ice cream shop. This was the first summer we                                    offered our ice cream scooped, all summer long.

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2021                 Opened our 2nd Streamline Trailer “The Wright Scoop” in Warren, RI.