Brighton Cattle Market is established.

Originally the Little Cambridge Cattle Market, it is located near today’s 201 Washington Street. Organized by Jonathan Winship to feed the Colonial troops, it proves so effective that Willard Wallace later writes, “There were so few hungry soldiers in the siege lines around Boston that winter that one might say it was with food rather than with troops and arms that Washington kept the British locked up in the city.” It continues as both a stockyard and slaughtering center after the Revolutionary War, moves to the rear of Hastings Tavern on the North side of Washington Street East of today’s Leicester Street about 1820, then to lower Market Street in 1881 (April 30, 1884-WM). (It closes when the Abattoir closes in 1956.