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Union Stock Yard Pens, Omaha, Nebraska (postcard image from 1930s or 1940s). Union stockyards in the United States were centralized urban livestock yards where multiple rail lines delivered animals from ranches and farms for slaughter and meat packing.
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 operated by a group of railroad companies that acquired marshland and turned it into a centralized processing area. By the 1890s, the railroad capital behind the ...
A fierce rival of Chicago's Union Stock Yards, the Omaha Union Stockyards were third in the United States for production by 1890. [2] In 1947 they were second to Chicago in the world. Omaha overtook Chicago as the nation's largest livestock market and meat packing industry center in 1955, a title which it held onto until 1971. [ 3 ]
The Union Stock Yards Company of Omaha was a 90-year-old company first founded in South Omaha, Nebraska in 1878 by John A. Smiley. After being moved to Council Bluffs, Iowa and dissolved within a year, the company was reorganized and moved to South Omaha in 1883. [ 1 ]
The Stock Yards were built on the site of the 1847 Battle of La Mesa. [2] Planning for the development and some outdoor pens were established as early as 1913. [3] [4] The Los Angeles Union Stock Yards were developed by the businessmen who ran the Union Stock Yards of Chicago. [5]
Kansas City Stockyards in 1909 Kansas City Stockyards in 1904 with the Livestock Exchange Building View of stockyards & surrounding area. The stockyards were built to provide better prices for livestock owners. [citation needed] Previously, livestock owners west of Kansas City could only sell at whatever price the railroad offered. With the ...
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.
By 1880, the company had become Chicago's most important business and had helped make Chicago and its Union Stock Yards the center of America's meatpacking industry. During the same period, its facility in Omaha, Nebraska , boomed, making the city's meatpacking industry the largest in the nation by 1959.