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The Armour Packing Plant was a division of
The Union Stock Yards Company gave Armour $600,000 in land and approximately $750,000 in stock in the Omaha Stockyards to build a packing house. This deal raised the ire of stockholders in the stockyards company, as well as competitors in the
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Strikers in a picket hut at the Armour plant
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Armour and Company
Armour & Company was an American company and was one of the five leading firms in the meat packing industry. It was founded in Chicago, in 1867, by the Armour brothers led by Philip Danforth Armour. By 1880, the company had become Chicago's most ...
located at South 29th and Q Streets in South Omaha, Nebraska South Omaha is a former city and current district of Omaha, Nebraska, United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. ...
. The plant opened in 1897 and closed in 1968. The plant included several buildings, including a remarkable red brick administrative building, and a large, tall wall which surrounded the facility. It was located on the South Omaha Terminal Railway The South Omaha Terminal Railway in Omaha, Nebraska was a subsidiary of the Union Stock Yards Company of Omaha. Until the separate railroad company was created in July 1927, the trackage, about , was owned and operated directly by the Union Stock Ya ...
, and next to the Omaha Stockyards The Union Stockyards of Omaha, Nebraska, were founded in 1883 in South Omaha by the Union Stock Yards Company of Omaha. A fierce rival of Chicago's Union Stock Yards, the Omaha Union Stockyards were third in the United States for production by 1890. ...
, making Armour one of the "Big Four" packing companies in Omaha.
History
The Union Stock Yards Company gave Armour $600,000 in land and approximately $750,000 in stock in the Omaha Stockyards to build a packing house. This deal raised the ire of stockholders in the stockyards company, as well as competitors in the meat-packing industry
The meat-packing industry (also spelled meatpacking industry or meat packing industry) handles the slaughtering, processing, packaging, and distribution of meat from animals such as cattle, pigs, sheep and other livestock. Poultry is generally no ...
.
The contractors selected to build the plant were Rocheford & Gould
Rocheford & Gould were brick manufacturers and construction contractors in early Omaha, Nebraska. The firm built numerous brick structures during Omaha's transition from the wooden buildings of Nebraska's territorial days to more permanent str ...
, and the first brick was laid on 17 November 1897.
There were a number of large riots and civil unrest that originated or included events at the Armour Packing Plant.Nebraska Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics. (1894) ''Biennial report of the Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics of Nebraska.'' p 463.
See also
*History of Omaha, Nebraska
The history of Omaha, Nebraska, began before the settlement of the city, with speculators from neighboring Council Bluffs, Iowa staking land across the Missouri River illegally as early as the 1840s. When it was legal to claim land in Indian Co ...
* Economy of Omaha, Nebraska The economy of Omaha, Nebraska is linked to the city's status as a major commercial hub in the Midwestern United States since its founding in 1854. Dubbed the "Motor Mouth City" by ''The New York Times'',Feder, J"Omaha: Talk, Talk, Talk of Telemarke ...
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Strikers in a picket hut at the Armour plant
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References
Former buildings and structures in Omaha, Nebraska Meatpacking industry in Omaha, Nebraska History of South Omaha, Nebraska 1897 establishments in Nebraska 1968 disestablishments in Nebraska Industrial buildings completed in 1897 {{Nebraska-struct-stub