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The De Mores Packing Plant was built on this site by the Marquis de Mores in 1883 to furnish dressed beef directly from the western ranges. A French nobleman who came to the Badlands and founded the town of Medora in the spring of 1883, he made the packing plant the nucleus of an extensive scheme to slaughter beef on the range and provide facilities for refrigeration, transportation, and marketing of dressed beef. The Medora Abattoir continued to operate until late in the fall of 1886, but the lack of a constant supply of range cattle in prime condition for slaughtering prevented year-round operation and was a principal reason for the venture’s failure. A fire of unknown origin destroyed the plant on March 17, 1907. In 1936, Louis Vallombrosa, the Marquis’ eldest son, donated the site to the State of North Dakota with the State Historical Society as trustee.
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Medora, North Dakota · United States
