Fort Worth Stockyards Horse and Mule Barns

The Fort Worth Stock Yard Company's wooden horse and mule barns on this site were destroyed by fire on March 14, 1911, opening day of the Feeders and Breeders show (later Southwestern Exposition & Fat Stock Show). The show opened ...

Stockyard

This area of the furnace complex was known as the stockyard. Here the raw materials were delivered, stockpiled, sorted and graded.

When Buckeye Furnace was operating, this area bustled with activity as teamsters delivered and unloaded their cargoes of limestone, iron ...

Kansas Pacific Stockyards

Historical Plaza Walking Tour Stop 7

The stockyards were to your left on the location of today's old CK elevator. The photo to the left was actually taken from a location west of here. It shows scattered buildings in the background. ...

The Stockyards

Railroads and cattle. The two were made for each other, and nowhere did that become more evident than right here in Kansas City.

As cattlemen began using the expanding Kansas Pacific railroad to move cattle more quickly from Texas ...

Saluda County Stockyard and Livestock Market

Built in 1957, the Stockyard has provided a livestock market for over two generations of farmers. Ralph T. McClendon and Georgia Senator Sam McGill opened this ultra-modern auction barn in Saluda. One newspaper article stated that the barn "is the ...

The Stockyards

The idea to create a livestock market and meat packing center at South St. Paul was conceived by Alpheus B. Stickney, a prominent railroad businessman. After meetings with western livestock ranchers and producers, the need to locally slaughter and process ...