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The city of Indianapolis financed the building of the stockyard in 1876. The stockyard was the first public property in the city for the unloading, watering and marketing of cattle, hogs, sheep and horses.
Between 1877 and 1909, the stockyard took in 40 million hogs and 5 million cattle. Daily business transactions reached $1 million a day by 1954. Labor disputes and strikes closed the facility twice in the 1950s. Eli Lilly and Company bought the stockyards in 1967 as a site for future expansion. When the pharmaceutical company began development of the site, the stockyards moved to a new facility on Kentucky Avenue, where the Indiana Farm Bureau Cooperative Association remains the only firm selling livestock at the yards. |
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| Encyclopedia of Indianapolis, page 1299-1300. | ||||