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Doug,
What I'm trying to determine is the location of the current Rochelle Foods plant the "new Swift plant" that the 1962 article talks about. If so, where was the existing plant that people say was the 1948 Swift plant? I have a circa1954 picture of the Standard Oil bulk fuel facility, and the meat plant is clearly not in this picture, so I believe the existing plant - just east of the bulk oil facility - is the "new" plant the Sycamore True Republican is reporting on in 1962. That would leave the question of where the existing plant was located in 1948.
Rich G.
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From: 'Douglas Harding' doug.harding@iowacentralrr.org [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sat, Aug 30, 2014 9:37 pm Subject: [CBQ] Re: Rochelle Swift Plant According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochelle,_Illinois (and other similar sites) Rochelle became a meat packing center with the Swift plant after WWII. Which would coincide with the 1948 date we have discussed before. Hormel purchased the plant in 1993 and did some expansion after that.
Somewhere I one time came across something that indicated that Rochelle Foods LLS built the plant about 1933. But I cannot confirm. Swift acquired the plant, apparently after the war. I have a reference that says Rochelle Foods had an auction, but I have no date for the sale. More than one plant did not survive the depression. And some sat empty for a while before being picked up by another company.
Doug Harding
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