ISSUE 31, FARMERS MARKETS, Part 4: New York, the First National Market

The New York Market after the Civil War: National Supply & Demand

Two years after Appomattox, the butcher-antiquarian Thomas F. De Voe, noted a revolution in the operation of the New York City market.  At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the producer and consumer often met face to face in the marketplace. In 1867, the “Producer is often hundreds …