By the Numbers: Ice Cream Statistics from Delaware Creameries and Parlors

133+
Flavors sold at
The Ice Cream Store
in Rehoboth Beach

15
Price per child (in dollars)
for an ice cream and pizza
party at Sweet Lucy’s
Ice Cream & Treats
in Wilmington

1972
Year that King’s Ice Cream
opened in Milton
(they added the
Lewes shop in 1981)

15,000+
Visitors last Fourth of
July weekend to
the Old Fashioned
Ice Cream Festival
at Rockford Park

12
Million pounds of milk
produced each year
at Green Acres Farm
near Lewes, the site of
Hopkins Farm Creamery

800K
Dollars needed to build the
creamery store and
processing facility
at the University of Delaware’s
UDairy Creamery in Newark

30
Jersey cows that produce the
milk used to make ice
cream at Woodside Farm
Creamery in Hockessin