Chimney Park, De Mores State Historic Site
A spur track connected the slaughterhouse with the main line of the Northern Pacific Railroad. Ice from the icehouses to your right were used to cool the refrigerator cars when the meat was loaded into them.The Marquis owned cold storage facilities along the Northern Pacific rail line in Miles City, Montana Territory; Bismarck and Fargo, Dakota Territory; Brainerd and Duluth, Minnesota. These facilities were used to re-ice the cars in transit, to store the dressed meat, and to serve as local wholesale outlets.The slaughterhouse closed in November of 1886, never to reopen. Reasons the business failed were the lower quality of range-fed beef, consumer preference for corn-fed beef, fierce competition from Philip Armour and Gustavas Swift, and personal troubles that included a murder charge against the Marquis. The plant was used for storage until it was destroyed by fire March 17, 1907.| HM Number | HM1NBQ |
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| Marker Condition | No reports yet |
| Date Added | Thursday, August 27th, 2015 at 9:01pm PDT -07:00 |
| UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 13T E 612126 N 5196861 |
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| Decimal Degrees | 46.91581667, -103.52745000 |
| Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 46° 54.949', W 103° 31.647' |
| Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 46° 54' 56.94" N, 103° 31' 38.82" W |
| Driving Directions | Google Maps |
| Area Code(s) | 701 |
| Which side of the road? | Marker is on the right when traveling West |
| Closest Postal Address | At or near E River Rd, Medora ND 58645, US |
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