The Cudahy Packing Plant was a division of the
Cudahy Packing Company
Cudahy Packing Company was an American meat packing company established in 1887 as the Armour-Cudahy Packing Company and incorporated in Maine in 1915. located at South 36th and O Streets in
South Omaha, Nebraska South Omaha is a former city and current district of Omaha, Nebraska, United States
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. The plant was opened in 1885 and closed in 1967. The plant included more than 20 buildings that were one to six stories tall, covering five square blocks. 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 Cudahy one of the "Big Four" packing companies in Omaha.
History
Sir
Thomas Lipton
Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton, 1st Baronet (10 May 18482 October 1931) was a Scotsman of Ulster-Scots parentage who was a self-made man, as company founder of Lipton Tea, merchant, philanthropist and yachtsman who lost 5 straight America's Cup ...
of London started a plant in South Omaha, and sold it to the Armour-Cudahy Company in 1887. In 1890,
Philip Armour
Philip Danforth Armour Sr. (16 May 1832 – 6 January 1901) was an American meatpacking industrialist who founded the Chicago-based firm of Armour & Company. Born on an upstate New York farm, he made $8,000 in the California gold rush, 1852 ...
withdrew his interest, and the plant became known for as the Cudahy Brothers' solely. There were a number of large
riots and civil unrest that originated or included events at the Cudahy 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
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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 ...
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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 ...
References
External links
Historic photo called "Men at Work in the Edible Tank Room at the Cudahy Packing Plant"Historic photo called "Cudahy Packing Company Employees"
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Former buildings and structures in Omaha, Nebraska
Meatpacking industry in Omaha, Nebraska
History of South Omaha, Nebraska
1885 establishments in Nebraska
1967 disestablishments in Nebraska
Industrial buildings completed in 1885