The Hammond Packing Plant was a division of the G.H. Hammond Company, Limited located at South 36th and O Streets in South Omaha, Nebraska.(1898) Chicago Securities. Volume 8. Chicago Directory Company. p 197.
History
The plant was opened in the 1880s and was then closed in 1901, when it was bought by the Armour Company for $5,000,000. In 1905 the National Packing Company bought the plant to reopen it. National was later busted by the federal government in the "Beef Trust" conspiracy.(1904) "Packing house notes", Ice and Refrigeration. Nickerson & Collins Co. p 245. There were a number of riots and civil unrest that originated or included events at the Cudahy Packing Plant.Nebraska Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics. (1894) Biennial report of the Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics of Nebraska. p 463.
See also History of Omaha, Nebraska Economy of Omaha, Nebraska
References
External links "Historic photo of Hammond Packing Plant"