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Revision as of 17:43, 11 November 2011
CORN BELT PACKING COMPANY. A local meatpacking firm. Corn Belt Packing, occupying the buildings constructed for the DUBUQUE BREWING AND MALTING COMPANY, opened for business on October 15, 1919.
Fred Kretschmer succeeded A. B. McCue as president and is generally given credit for making the company a profitable enterprise. The beginning of the Great Depression in 1921 closed the plant which was later reopened as a distribution point for a Chicago meat packer.
The 1923 Dubuque City Directory listed the corner of 30th and Washington.
