The History Behind the Flying Pig: A Narrative of Urban and Rural Land in Ohio from the 1840s to 1870s
The city of Cincinnati was called Porkopolis, but its famous pork industry involved hundreds of square miles of pig-raising hinterland. It is unknown who first used the name to describe Cincinnati’s pork packing empire but it started to appear in print in the 1840s. One article from The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, Louisiana said “Porkopolis- One hundred and sixty thousand hogs have already been slaughtered this year in Cincinnati”, in 1845. The narrative about this pork packing empire tends to start and end in Cincinnati’s borders. To best understand the history of the flying pig the narrative needs to be expanded to look outside Cincinnati. Therefore the four categories required to present the history of hogs in the pork industry are: Farms, Transportation, Stockyards and Slaughterhouse, and Manufactures and Markets.
Introduction to Porkopolis
About
Farms
Transportation
Stockyard/Slaughterhouse
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