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In the 1850s, Chicago foods trade business rivals George Armour and George W. Dole joined forces in the grain trade, forming the roots of Armour, Dole, & Co. The company became a leading player in the city's grain market, eventually building 10,000,000 bushels worth of grain storage in the city.
The Seneca Grain Elevator consists of a 65-foot (20 m) grain elevator or "elevating warehouse" which rises four stories above its basement. The 40-foot (12 m) by 80-foot (24 m) structure dominates the site and overlooks downtown Seneca. Between 1924–39 corrugated metal siding was added to the building as a fire prevention measure. [2]
The Bloomer Line is owned by Alliance Grain Company, which owns the eight grain elevators served by the railroad. It is primarily a grain transporter, shipping carloads of corn, soybeans and wheat from these locations to the connecting railroads, but also serves several other industries, including a soybean processing plant in Gibson City and a fertilizer distribution facility in Colfax.
The J. H. Hawes Elevator is a historic grain elevator located on 2nd Street in Atlanta, Illinois. The elevator was built in 1903 along the Illinois Midland Railroad ; it was used to store locally farmed grain before the railroad shipped it to cities such as Peoria , Decatur , and Terre Haute, Indiana .
In a move that will enable the company to reinvest in its U.S. grain business, Minnetonka-based Cargill is selling a group of elevators in five states to Inver Grove Heights-based CHS Inc. Cargill ...
Niverville – Western Canada's first grain elevator, erected by William Hespeler in 1879 ; Plum Coulee – grain elevator refurbished as a restaurant and meeting rooms. Holmfield – Harrison Grain elevator and flour mill – still owned by the Harrison family; Ontario. Port Perry – formerly Curries Grain Elevator(1873)and A.Ross and son ...
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Cayuga is an unincorporated community in Livingston County, Illinois, United States, and is located northeast of Pontiac. Never that large to begin with, all that remains is an abandoned grain elevator and depot along the Union Pacific .