MUSKINGUM LIVESTOCK MARKET

The Muskingum Livestock Sales Company was organized in the summer of 1941, under the leadership of the later Bernard Anderson and the late Bernard Porter. Mr. Anderson headed the Muskingum Livestock Market Inc., which lost its Lee Street facility to fire in May 1941. Anderson and Porter joined together with others in forming the Muskingum Livestock Sales Company, which announced in September of 1941 that they would construct a farm and stockyard at the former site of the Muskingum Livestock Market Inc. The newly chosen board members of Bernard Anderson, Bernard Porter, George Wilking, Ben Tunis, Ernest Gorsuch, Sam Bell and John Graham initiated the building of the new facility at an estimated cost of $10,000. The building capital was raised through the selling of stock to local patrons. In October of that year, construction began on what was later quoted to be "the best livestock layout in the state". In late January of 1942, the new Muskingum Livestock Sales Company's barn and..

Also known as: Muskingum Livestock, Muskingum Livestock Market Inc.

Primary location: Zanesville United States