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Aerial view, 1923 "Welcome to the Omaha livestock market" The Union Stockyards of Omaha, Nebraska , were founded in 1883 in South Omaha by the Union Stock Yards Company of Omaha . [ 1 ] A fierce rival of Chicago's Union Stock Yards , the Omaha Union Stockyards were third in the United States for production by 1890. [ 2 ]
The Livestock Exchange Building in Omaha, Nebraska, was built in 1926 at 4920 South 30 Street in South Omaha. [3] It was designed as the centerpiece of the Union Stockyards by architect George Prinz and built by Peter Kiewit and Sons in the Romanesque revival and Northern Italian Renaissance Revival styles.
The Heber Hord House is a two-story frame house in Central City, Nebraska.It was designed by Omaha architects Fisher & Lawrie, and built in 1906 by Heber Hord, the only son of Thomas Benton (T. B.) Hord, a prominent business man and cattle rancher in Nebraska during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Throughout most of human prehistory and history, the primary means of livestock transportation was by droving.The reason was usually either for seasonal grazing movement (to move them to a summer grazing range or to move them to an overwintering range or shelter) or to bring them to market of one form or another, whether bartering livestock (between farmers) or selling them (whether as stores ...
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The Retzlaff Farmstead is a historic estate in Walton, Nebraska. The farm was established in 1858 by Charles Retzlaff, an immigrant from Germany who had arrived in America four years earlier. [2] [3] [4] Retzlaff raised purebred Shorthorn cattle on the farm, and he "became one of the county's most prominent citizens."
From 1941 to 1946, the company opened stores in Nebraska, Minnesota and Iowa. [3] [5] [6] On January 14, 1959, Tractor Supply became publicly traded on the over-the-counter market and reached $10 million in sales. [7] [8] The company was later traded on the New York Stock Exchange. [8] In 1967, TSC opened its first international stores in ...
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