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The Cannibal Pig People of Pig Hill
American Hysteria
The Importance of Pigs in American History
In colonial America, pigs were imported by Spanish and European colonizers in the 15 and 1600s. Lacking proper fencing, these animals were allowed to roam freely on what was referred to as the open range. The government of Philadelphia passed laws banning pig farms or pigories as they called them from the ever expanding city limits. In New York in 1859, almost 90 policemen were sent to destroy the pigories using guns, daggers, and pickaxes. By the late 1910s, Philadelphia, located not far from Pig Hill's Meadville, had its own war on pigs, when a mini battalion of cops and firefighters was sent by the city to shut down a local man's hog
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