Franklin

This guide to Franklin in Santiago traces the neighborhood back to 1847, when a merchant handed the city land at the edge of town for a public slaughterhouse beside the fetid Zanjon de la Aguada canal. You'll hear about the cuchilleros who worked the killing floor, the cattle trains that rolled in from 1890, and how the stagnant canal spread disease through the tenements nearby for decades. It follows the slaughterhouse's concrete rebuild in 1910 and its eventual decline, up to a 1976 fire that gutted what remained of the old market building.