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A pen for cattle may also be called a corral, a term borrowed from the Spanish language. Groups of pens that are part of a larger complex may be called a stockyard , where a series of pens hold a large number of animals, or a feedlot , which is a type of stockyard used to confine animals that are being fattened.
The cabin was accompanied by a petting zoo and a dining area known as the Big Thunder Barbecue. Eventually, the petting zoo was removed to make room for an outdoor theater that served as a home for a live show themed to Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame titled Festival of Fools beginning in June 1996. [7] The show ended in April 1998. [7]
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. A stockyard company managed the work of unloading the livestock, which was faster and more efficient than using railway staff. [ 1 ]
The Great Western Livestock Show was held at the Los Angeles Union Stockyards from 1926 [10] until 1953. [11] Santa Fe Railroad bought out the Stock Yards Company in 1928 and eventually expanded the "Central Manufacturing District" into a 3,500 acre irregularly shaped industrial tract. [ 1 ]
The Stockyards experienced early success. By 1907, the Stockyards sold a million cattle per year. The stockyards was an organized place where cattle, sheep, and hogs could be bought, sold and slaughtered. Fort Worth remained an important part of the cattle industry until the 1950s. Business suffered due to livestock auctions held closer to ...
Stockyards City entities fear the county's use of eminent domain in assembling a location there, one local representative said. Ben Hale, president of the Oklahoma City Livestock Exchange — a ...
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.
A fire at the local staple Cantina Cadillac bar in Fort Worth’s Historic Stockyards left the building with extensive damage, but many unique pieces of cowboy history housed in the bar were ...