Kenton’s Rail Yards helped to make the town an industrial area. - TopicsExpress



          

Kenton’s Rail Yards helped to make the town an industrial area. It became even more famous as Cowtown when Swift Packing Company set up shop opposite Hayden Island on the Columbia Slough in 1909. Swift employed over 600 workers and they butchered more beef in Kenton than in any other town in the Northwest. When the cattlemen brought their herd to market, they lived it up in Kenton. As Portland grew and expanded, it annexed many of the smaller towns into the city limits.
Posted on: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 22:03:25 +0000

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