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Historic Photos of the Stockyards "Sales Day" - description of selling animals at the Livestock Exchange Building in the 1950s; Historic American Engineering Record documentation, filed under 2900 O Plaza, Omaha, Douglas County, NE: HAER No. NE-10, "South Omaha Union Stock Yards", 7 photos, 10 measured drawings, 56 data pages, 2 photo caption pages
Union Stock Yards, Chicago, 1947. The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, was the meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century, starting in 1865. The district was formed by a group of railroad companies that acquired marshland and turned it into a vast centralized processing area.
A stockyard company managed the work of unloading the livestock, which was faster and more efficient than using railway staff. [1] Terminal stockyards received, handled, fed, watered, weighed, held, and forward-shipped commercial livestock. [2] The Chicago Union Stock Yards were the most famous and enduring example of this type of commercial ...
The stockyards closed more than a half-century ago. About the only trace of Chicago’s manufacturing glory is the forest of balconies tacked onto repurposed factories. Now the Silos’ owner ...
The stockyards closed in 2001. Only one major meatpacker remains in town. The city's fortunes ebbed as family-owned businesses gave way to corporations and the consolidation of American industry.
The stockyard business declined but the value of centrally located Los Angeles real estate continued to increase. The Los Angeles Union Stock Yards were closed on April 30, 1960. The Stock Yard buildings were all demolished and eventually replaced with other commercial and industrial warehouses. [16] [17]
Once the center of business and trading in the midst of 260 acres (110 ha) of livestock pens, the Livestock Exchange Building housed the Stockyards National Bank, offices, a bakery, cafeteria, kitchen, soda fountain, cigar stand, telephone and telegraph offices, apartments and sleeping rooms, a clothing store and a convention hall. There are ...
Six local businessmen, including William A. Paxton, Herman Kountze and John A. Creighton, formed the Union Stockyards on December 1, 1883 and purchased 2,000 acres (8.1 km 2) of land. [4] At that same point the businessmen formed the South Omaha Land Company, platting the city of South Omaha that same year over the remaining 1,700 acres (6.9 km ...