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Apr. 30—SHIPSHEWANA — Tuesday was the first day of the season for the Shipshewana Flea Market. Shipshewana Flea Market sits on 40 acres and has nearly 700 spaces of vendors selling their wares.
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 116-year-old institution closed in 1999. [ 4 ] The Livestock Exchange Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
After a downturn in the market and changes in the livestock industry, the Union Stock Yards Company of Omaha lost value through the 1960s. In 1973 the Union Stock Yards Company of Omaha was sold to the Canal Capital Corporation of New York. In 1999 the Union Stockyards were closed by the City of Omaha, and replaced with a business park. [9]
Shipshewana is a town in Newbury Township, LaGrange County, Indiana, United States. The population was 658 at the 2010 census. The population was 658 at the 2010 census. It is the location of the Menno-Hof Amish & Mennonite Museum, which showcases the history of the Amish and Mennonite peoples.
In the early 1980s the Omaha-based company Scoular Grain was a growing agribusiness led by Nebraska grain industry executive Marshall Faith. Faith, along with several other investors, had acquired what was then Scoular-Bishop Grain Company in 1967 [5] and expanded its operations from three grain elevators to dozens of locations in multiple states, and was beginning to branch out beyond grain ...
The Neligh Journal was published in 1875, and in 1879, The Republican appeared. The Neligh Leader, established in 1885, was edited by three generations of the Best family.. Purchased by Loren Fry, who served as the Nebraska Press Association Board president in 1963, [3] it celebrated 100 years of continuous publicat
It is 1 mile (1.6 km) northwest of the town of Shipshewana and 6 miles (10 km) east of Middlebury. According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the Shipshewana Lake CDP has a total area of 0.64 square miles (1.66 km 2 ), of which 0.33 square miles (0.85 km 2 ) are land and 0.31 square miles (0.80 km 2 ), or 48.12%, are water. [ 1 ]