Stock Certificate for The National Stock Yard Company

Title: Stock Certificate for The National Stock Yard Company
Description: Blank certificate (numbered 236) for the stock of this Weehawken based company. Shares of the company cost $100 each and $1,000,000 worth of shares were issued. Incorporated in 1869, the business consisted of real estate, cattle yards and buildings in New Jersey, near the Hudson River. The Erie Company bought the property and constructed the cattle yards and buildings, and transferred it to the National Stockyard Company in 1873. The company was merged in 1883 when consolidated with the Midland Terminal and Ferry Co and with the Open Cut and General Storehouse Co. The company__s yards were along Baldwin Avenue in Weehawken. Cattle was brought in by the train load from the west for the New York markets. This cattle was unloaded and placed in long sheds until time for shipment to New York. It was then driven down Baldwin Avenue, and across a bridge that went over the railroad tracks and on to the cattle boats which were moored at the dock at foot of Baldwin Avenue.
Subject: WHC220
Type: O2
Identifier: WHC220
Coverage: Weehawken, NJ [40.7663711,-74.02537149999999]
Tag: Business
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