First Broiler House

First Broiler House
First Broiler House is located in Delaware
First Broiler House
First Broiler House is located in the United States
First Broiler House
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LocationUniversity of Delaware Experimental Station, Georgetown, Delaware
Coordinates38°38′9″N 75°27′16″W / 38.63583°N 75.45444°W / 38.63583; -75.45444
Area0 acres (0 ha)
Built1923
NRHP reference No.74000607[1]
Added to NRHPJuly 3, 1974

The First Broiler House, also known as Mrs. Wilmer Steele's Broiler House, is preserved at the University of Delaware Agricultural Experiment Station near Georgetown, Delaware as an example of a chicken house that was widely used to raise broiler chickens in Delaware during the 1920s. An example of an individual-colony house, the 16-foot (4.9 m) square wood-frame building housed 500 chickens. It was provided with a coal stove.[2]

Cecile Steele of Ocean View, Delaware was the first person in Delaware to raise chickens specifically for meat production, separately from her laying flock that was primarily meant to produce eggs.[3][4] The wife of a Coast Guardsman stationed at the Bethany Beach Lifesaving Station,[5] she raised her first flock of 500 in 1923, selling 387 two-pound chickens for 67 cents per pound. She ordered 50, but was accidentally shipped 500 which she decided to keep and sell at a discount. Her business model was profitable. In 1924 she doubled to 1,000 chickens, and in 1925 leaped to 10,000. By 1973, 50 years later, the industry processed 3 billion chickens per year.[2]

The broiler house has been moved from its original site at the Steele farm and has been repaired. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 3, 1974.[1]

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References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ a b Gordy, J. Frank (August 31, 1972). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: First Broiler House". National Park Service. Retrieved October 25, 2011. and Accompanying photos
  3. ^ Torrella, Kenny (February 10, 2023). "How a shipping error 100 years ago launched the $30 billion chicken industry". Vox. Retrieved February 21, 2023.
  4. ^ Johnson, Steven (2021). Extra Life (1st ed.). Riverhead Books. pp. 208–209. ISBN 978-0-525-53885-1.
  5. ^ "Celia Steele and the Broiler Industry". History of Sussex County. Sussex County, Delaware. Archived from the original on October 14, 2011. Retrieved October 25, 2011.

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