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Jeff
Je.ff Gro.ss
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Join Date: Jun 2019
Location: Newburyport MA
Posts: 1,697
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Originally Posted by Kaneen
Thirty years after Cincinnati's 1788 founding, Elisha Mills established the first modern meat-packing plant in the city. His barrels of brine-filled pork contributed to a powerful national appetite for salt pork and started an industry that earned the city its nickname, Porkoplis, by the 1830s. - WCPO Story
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Why was Cincinnati called Porkopolis?
Steamboats were repaired and built in the city. It became a meatpacking center, where livestock was slaughtered and butchered and sold in Cincinnati or shipped. Cincinnati became known as the "Porkopolis" when it became the pork-processing center of the country.
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