TY - GEN
T1 - Hog Capital of the Nation: The Rise and Fall of the East St. Louis Stockyards
AU - Branstner, Mark C.
N1 - Midwest Archaeological Conference 56th Annual Meeting, 21-24th October, 2010, Bloomington, Indiana
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Opened in 1873 and incorporated as National City, Illinois in 1907, the Saint Louis National Stock Yards represented one of the largest livestock processing facilities in the world. At its peak, the facility encompassed 650 acres, employed more than 10,000 workers and processed 30,000 cattle, 50,000 hogs, 20,000 sheep, and 8,000 calves daily. Abandoned in 1997, the last vestiges of the complex will soon be replaced by the new I-70 Mississippi River bridge. Archaeological salvage work associated with this project has prompted this retrospective and a brief discussion of what remains to be discovered under the ruins.
AB - Opened in 1873 and incorporated as National City, Illinois in 1907, the Saint Louis National Stock Yards represented one of the largest livestock processing facilities in the world. At its peak, the facility encompassed 650 acres, employed more than 10,000 workers and processed 30,000 cattle, 50,000 hogs, 20,000 sheep, and 8,000 calves daily. Abandoned in 1997, the last vestiges of the complex will soon be replaced by the new I-70 Mississippi River bridge. Archaeological salvage work associated with this project has prompted this retrospective and a brief discussion of what remains to be discovered under the ruins.
KW - ISAS
UR - https://www.midwestarchaeology.org/annual-meeting/previous
M3 - Conference contribution
SP - 42
BT - Program & Abstracts, 56th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Archaeological Conference
ER -