Encyclopedia Dubuque
"Encyclopedia Dubuque is the online authority for all things Dubuque, written by the people who know the city best.”
Marshall Cohen—researcher and producer, CNN
Affiliated with the Local History Network of the State Historical Society of Iowa, and the Iowa Museum Association.
CORN BELT PACKING COMPANY
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.