Global
Food Heritage Project:
Meat Industry
Places associated with hunting, herding, processing
and distribution.
Hunting
Clovis, NM,
USA
Prehistoric hunting site
Blackwater
Draw Museum first opened
to the public in 1969 displays artifacts and exhibits
associated with the Blackwater Locality No. 1
Archaeological Site, one of the most important
archaeological sites in the New World. Over 13,000
years of site usage are described, from mammoth
hunting to modern culture.
Blackwater
Locality No. 1 is a National Historic
Landmark that is one of the most important archaeological
sites in the New World. This unique site documents
and interprets the earliest Paleoindian cultures
in North America.
More sites associated
with the history of hunting will be listed here.
Herding
Florida Cow "Hunter" Camp,
circa 1876
A cattle herding heritage site part of Lake Kissimmee
State Park
South central Florida was the
heart of Florida's frontier cattle country and
the life of early Florida cow hunters is interpreted
at the parks living history demonstration. Walk
down the dirt path and enter the year 1876 where
you will find a cow hunter who is more than willing
to talk about his life and times. Sample some
of the camp coffee and view the herd of Florida
scrub cattle, which were originally brought over
by the Spanish in the early 1500's.
Learn more about the history
of Florida's cattle industry here.
Stockyards
Photo sources (top):
daily cattle drive through historic district;
(bottom)
view of the stockyards and Armour meatpacking
plant, circa 1950
Fort Worth (Texas) Stockyards
Heritage Site
When the railroad finally arrived in 1876, Fort
Worth became a major shipping point for livestock.
In 1887, this prompted the construction of the
Union Stockyards about 2 1/2 miles north of
the Tarrant County Courthouse.
Wealthy Boston capitalist Greenlief
Simpson came to visit the yards at just the right
time. Heavy rains and a railroad strike led to
a large accumulation of cattle in the pens and
he decided Fort Worth would be a fine market.
Simpson and a group of investors bought the Stockyards
in 1893 and changed the name to Fort Worth Stock
Yards Company. In 1896, the company held its first
stock show, the "Feeders' & Breeders'
Show." In 1917, it became the "Fort
Worth Exposition & Fat Stock Show."
Simpson recruited Boston neighbor
Louville V. Niles as an investor and together
they persuaded two giant meatpackers-Armour &
Company and Switft & Company-to build in Fort
Worth. Construction on the huge plants started
in 1902. Business was great. In the first months
of operations, Armour and Swift bought 265,279
cattle, 128,934 hogs, and 40,160 sheep. Learn
more here.
More historic stockyard
sites to be listed here.
Butchers
P. Burns & Co. Butcher
Shop
The store is significant as part
of the successful western Canadian industrial
and retail empire. Built for P. Burns & Co.
circa 1908-09, it formed part of the company’s
extensive chain of retail butcher stores.
The P. Burns & Co. Butcher
Store is a two-storey wood-frame commercial building
that stands in a grouping of similar small-scale
commercial buildings along Clarke Street, the
original commercial and retail centre of Port
Moody.
Learn more about this historic
butcher shop here.
More
sites associated with butchery to be listed here.
(This is a work in progress. We
welcome input. Contact
us.)
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