This land was used to develop housing for employees of the earliest employers: The Merchants Despatch Corporation and the Aeolian Piano Corporation.
MDT also entered the Intermodal freight transport business, and purchased 572 container flats (intended mainly for use in mail service on passenger trains) between 1958 and 1965.
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The Merchants Despatch Transportation Company (MDT, also known as the Merchants Despatch Refrigerator Line) was established in 1857 or 1858 by the American Express Company of New York (then a freight forwarding service).
Farmers and Merchants Bank | Merchants National Bank | Despatch Box | African Company of Merchants | Merchants Square | Merchants Exchange Building | Merchants Despatch | Merchants Club | London Pneumatic Despatch Company | Interactive Entertainment Merchants Association | Farmers' and Merchants' Bank building in Red Cloud | Entertainment Merchants Association | Danzaburou-danuki (upper left) lends money to human merchants in the painting ''Danzaburou-danuki of Sado Province | China Merchants Group | Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association |