Springdale Poultry Industry Historic District
Springdale Poultry Industry Historic District | |
Location | Emma Avenue, Springdale, Arkansas |
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Area | Less than one acre |
NRHP reference No. | 11000695[1] |
Added to NRHP | September 23, 2011 |
The Springdale Poultry Industry Historic District encompasses a small complex of commercial industrial buildings associated with the poultry industry in Springdale, Arkansas. Its three buildings included the original headquarters building of Tyson Foods, one of the world's largest producers of chicken meat. That building, at 319 East Emma Avenue, was built between 1914 and 1924 to house a produce store, and was extensively altered in 1947 to house the Tyson offices. Immediately adjacent at 317 East Emma is a chicken hatchery, built in 1924 by the Springdale Electric Hatchery Company and renamed the Jeff Brown Hatchery in 1949. The Tyson Feed Mill building stands behind these at 316 East Meadow. Jeff Brown was the first president of the Arkansas Poultry Improvement Association.[2]
The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.[1]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Springdale Poultry Industry Historic District" (PDF). Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved April 26, 2015.
External links
[edit] Media related to Springdale Poultry Industry Historic District at Wikimedia Commons
- Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas
- Buildings and structures in Springdale, Arkansas
- National Register of Historic Places in Washington County, Arkansas
- Tyson Foods
- Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas
- 1914 establishments in Arkansas
- Industrial buildings completed in 1924
- Office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas
- Poultry farming in the United States
- Washington County, Arkansas Registered Historic Place stubs