Texas A&M University - Aggie Park Creamery

A campus creamery was a part of A&M since the early 20th century, according to The Battalion archives. In 1956, the creamery moved from west campus to a new building next to Evans Library. Milk for the creamery’s ice cream came from cows at A&M’s former Dairy Cattle Center on a 450-acre complex off F&B Road northwest of campus. The creamery was open until 1992 when it closed due to construction of the Evans Library Annex and was destroyed in 1995 to make room for the Central Campus Garage.

A new creamery was being built on A&M’s west campus near Discovery Drive and was supposed to house the old creamery’s ice cream-making equipment, according to a 1997 article in The Battalion. A&M’s student newspaper reported in 1999 that the building, which cost $3.5 million, was completed in the fall of 1998, but went unused for a year. Issues arose when the old creamery equipment was deemed unusable.

The new creamery on west campus never opened.

Over 25 years later, a creamery has returned to A&M’s campus.