Cheesetown Festival

Mid Jun - Doc Letchfield Park

The cheese capital of Michigan and the birthplace of famous Pinconnning cheese is the place to be on Father's Day weekend for the CheeseTown Festival! It is also the place to be every Tuesday evening all summer long for the free concert series, Tuesdays in the Park. For more information call (989) 879-2816. Great people make the Pinconning and Linwood area a wonderful place to live, play, work and visit. Located on the beautiful Saginaw Bay, you’ll find a friendly atmosphere, trophy walleye, and famous Pinconning cheese!

2015 marked the 100th anniversary of Pinconning cheese. Dan Horn, a Wisconsin transplant, created the unique Colby recipe in 1915, when he opened the first cheese factory in town, on the property that is now home to the Pinconning Cheese Store & Fudge Shoppe. Deforestation had all but eliminated lumbering, the area’s main source of income; Pinconning was looking for a new industry, and local dairy farmers needed away to use and market the milk they produced. Good ol’ Midwest ingenuity ensued and a Michigan tradition was born!

Pinconning cheese is a type of Colby, although because of limited refrigeration in the early years, it was aged in cellars, at higher-than-normal temperatures, giving the cheese its unique flavor. Please remember to Like and Follow us on Facebook!

Pinconning Linwood Chamber

email
chamber@PinconningLinwood.com

address
Post Office Box 856
Pinconning, MI. 48650-0856

phone
(989) 879-2816