By now, you probably know that the Route 1 corridor has its own honey, beer, whiskey, mead, community farm and coffee, but you may not realize it also has its own ice cream; Maryland Dairy.

In 1924, the University of Maryland opened a showroom to sell dairy products made from cows and chickens raised on campus.

Two professors at the College of Agriculture, Drs. Wendell S. Arbuckle and C. Walter England, later began experimenting with ice cream flavors using the dairy’s products.

Arbuckle, who became a world-renowned authority on ice cream, wrote one of the standard textbooks on the subject, a 474-page book titled simply “Ice Cream,” and Maryland Dairy still uses some of his recipes.

The dairy provides a link to Route 1’s past, as both the Heurich Farm in Hyattsville, now the site of the Mall at Prince Georges, and Riversdale in Riverdale Park had working dairies.

Now located in the Stamp Student Union, Maryland Dairy sells traditional flavors like mint chocolate chip and pistachio as well as more original concoctions like one made with strawberry ice cream, vanilla sponge cake, sherry and vanilla cream. Several flavors have been certified as kosher.

You can buy ice cream in cup or cone, a sundae, a milkshake, a banana split or a root beer float, or by the half gallon or three-gallon tub.

The dairy has limited hours, however, so you may want to check its schedule before going.