Aerial View

ID: 4891 ~ Source: “Marketing Hogs and Sheep in the Spokane Stockyards,” Henry Tucker, Feb. 1950. State College of Washington, Institute of Agriculture Sciences.
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This aerial photo from the 1950s shows the stockyards extent.

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By Polly Kaczmarek
It was the end of an era when Stockland Union Stockyards closed in 1999. Just off of North Freya, the area had been home to stockyards since 1915, when the Spokane Union Stockyards opened under the direction of brothers John H. and Walter D.…