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.

This file appears in: Spokane Stockyards: A reminder of Spokane's agricultural past

Spokane Stockyards: A reminder of Spokane's agricultural past

By Polly Kaczmarek

From the 1880s to 1999, Spokane was a town of slaughterhouses. The Old Union Stockyards were the last of their kind.