A lone brick chimney rises out of a flat patch of grass along Pacific Avenue — all that remains of the Marquis de Mores's grand meat-packing plant, which fell into ruin within five years of its 1883 construction. Interpretive panels explain how the operation worked: cattle slaughtered on site, the meat carried in refrigerated railroad cars to East Coast markets, ice cut from the Little Missouri River and stored in massive icehouses through the summer.
The site is free, open year-round, and takes only fifteen minutes. Combined with the Chateau on the hill above, it is the cleanest illustration in town of one nobleman's spectacular failure on the plains.