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The Springdale Poultry Industry Historic District encompasses a small complex of commercial industrial buildings associated with the poultry industry in
Springdale, Arkansas Springdale is a city in Washington County, Arkansas, Washington and Benton County, Arkansas, Benton counties in the U.S. state of Arkansas. The city had a population of 84,161 at the 2020 census, making it the List of cities and towns in Arkan ...
. Its three buildings included the original headquarters building of
Tyson Foods Tyson Foods, Inc. is an American multinational corporation based in Springdale, Arkansas that operates in the food industry. The company is the world's second-largest processor and marketer of broiler industry, chicken, beef, and pork after JBS ...
, one of the world's largest producers of chicken meat. That building, at 319 East Emma Avenue, was built between 1914 and 1924 to house a produce store, and was extensively altered in 1947 to house the Tyson offices. Immediately adjacent at 317 East Emma is a chicken hatchery, built in 1924 by the Springdale Electric Hatchery Company and renamed the Jeff Brown Hatchery in 1949. The Tyson Feed Mill building stands behind these at 316 East Meadow. Jeff Brown was the first president of the Arkansas Poultry Improvement Association. The district was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
in 2011.


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National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington County, Arkansas __NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington County, Arkansas. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington Cou ...


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Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Buildings and structures in Springdale, Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Washington County, Arkansas Tyson Foods Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas 1914 establishments in Arkansas Industrial buildings completed in 1924 Office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Poultry farming in the United States {{WashingtonCountyAR-NRHP-stub