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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.”
Settled in 1764 by Pierre Laclède, St. Louis was named for King Louis XV of France and his patron saint, Louis IX. Laclède was unaware that France had transferred its claims to the part of Louisiana west of the Mississippi River to Spain in 1762.
Apr 22, 2021 · In 1874, Civil War hero William T. Sherman moved the headquarters of the Army from Washington to St. Louis, making it a base for his campaign to seize Native Americans’ land and protect railroad...
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.”
Aug 2, 2015 · 1. It’s named for King Louis IX. The city was founded in 1764 as a French fur-trading village by Pierre Laclede who honored the patron saint of then-French king Louis XV by naming what would...
It was organized as a village by Auguste Chouteau and named for Louis IX, the patron saint of Louis XV of France. St. Louis was transferred to Spain in 1770 and served as the capital of the Spanish territory of Upper Louisiana from 1770 to 1800. Then it was ceded back to France.
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(See page 37) The first home rule city charter in the nation was adopted by St. Louis at the same time under the State Constitution of 1875. The new city limits on the west were 600 feet west of Skinker Road and on the south and southwest they paralleled the general direction of the River Des Peres.
