Langlois, Oregon (on the Southern Oregon coast south of Bandon) was once home to a thriving blue cheese factory that was destroyed in a fire in 1957. According to this brief summary (scroll down a bit), the factory originally made cheddar before switching to blue. In the same summary we also learn that the professor who instructed owner Hans Hansen to make blue cheese apparently also taught the folks at Maytag Cheese Co.....so perhaps you can get a bit of the flavor of what Langlois cheese may have been like by sampling Maytag blue today.
All that was left of the factory when this photo was taken, in 2007, was the rusted sign (Langlois Cheese Makers - Famous Blue Vein Cheese).
Thanks to Rick Donaldson for the photo.
Great to have information on Langlois for archives. I have looked for years for information on this creamery. Did you know Rogue Creamery has Langlois hoops in storage? Will you be researching other creameries that are no longer producing like Crater Lake Creamery from K-Falls? Hope so! Thanks, David
Posted by: DL Gremmels | May 27, 2009 at 07:29 AM
Laurie Kreutzer
Bandon, Oregon 97411
I have two of the original boxes from the Langlois Blue Cheese. Also used to have some of the hoops, the original sign and the original recipe for making the cheese, but have not been able to find those. I found the boxes today.
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Posted by: Laurie Kreutzer | August 10, 2009 at 02:58 PM