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Oct 29, 2020 · St. Louis was called “first inland city on the globe” by journalist Horace Greeley, and Walt Whitman, William T. Sherman, and local boosters supported the idea of making it the nation’s new capitol, even if it meant moving the old one “brick-by-brick.”
May 11, 2020 · In a new book, “The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States,” the Missouri native shows how those themes — and a spirit of rebellion — come together in the story of the Gateway City.
The Roanoke Colony was located on the coastline in 1585, but 22 years later the English knew to start their settlement far inland - to minimize the dangers from the Spanish and other international enemies.
Saint Louis is an unincorporated community in southwestern Loudoun County, Virginia. Saint Louis is located near the intersection of Saint Louis Road ( Virginia State Route 611) and Snake Hill Road ( Virginia State Route 744 ), six miles west of Middleburg. It is a historic African American community dating from 1891 or earlier, with many ...
May 20, 2011 · J. Frederic Fausz, associate professor of history at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, set out to explore the 250-year-old mystery of why and how French St. Louis was founded. The result is his new book, “Founding St. Louis: First City of the New West.”
Jun 8, 2017 · Archaeologists first used a backhoe to excavate 12 to 18 inches to remove 19th and 20th century rubbish to expose the 18th century living surface as well as evidence of homes and other buildings. “What we’re looking at is part of the original settlement of St. Louis as it was platted back in 1764,” Meyer said.
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From the 1930s onward a new aspect of Virginia's legacy opened as the northern part of the state closest to Washington, D.C., became the locus for military bases, the Pentagon, massive suburbanization, and “Edge City.” Artistically and culturally, Virginia's greatest legacy is its architecture.
