The Polk Brothers Livestock Stockyards of Fort Worth
Author(s): Harding Polk. II
Year: 2017
Summary
Brothers James Hilliard Polk and Lucius Junius Polk banded together to form the Polk Brothers Livestock stockyards of Fort Worth. Established in 1885 they were the first stockyard in Fort Worth. They were located south of the present Fort Worth Union stockyards and situated conveniently at the intersection of two rail lines. One notable contract they received was to supply the British Army with horses and mules during the Boer Wars in South Africa at the turn of the twentieth century. Around 1914 the stockyards burned ending the enterprise.
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The Polk Brothers Livestock Stockyards of Fort Worth. Harding Polk. II. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Fort Worth, TX. 2017 ( tDAR id: 435518)
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Keywords
General
Fort Worth
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stockyards
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
Late 19th Century
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 650