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St. Louis ( / seɪnt ˈluːɪs, sənt -/ saynt LOO-iss, sənt-) [11] is an independent city in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is located near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri rivers.
- Stroll Through The Stunning Missouri Botanical Garden. Stretching across 79 acres, this peaceful oasis in St. Louis features one of the world’s largest collections of endangered and rare flora.
- Take In History & Art At The Saint Louis Art Museum. An enigmatic structure in Forest Park, the Saint Louis Art Museum is one of the top art museums in the United States, featuring cultural objects, ancient masterpieces, and more.
- Learn About Local History At The Missouri History Museum. Operated by the Missouri Historical Society, the Missouri History Museum started in 1866. Since its founding, the museum has expanded its repertoire and collection to become one of the most visited history museums in the nation, and its historic building became the first national monument to Thomas Jefferson.
- Visit The Place Of Champions At The St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame and Museum. Located in downtown St. Louis, the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame and Museum shares the spectacular history of players and personnel of the professional baseball team, the St. Louis Cardinals.
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- Indigenous People Early History: Pre-1764
- European Settlement: 1764-1803
- The Great Migration: 1803-1860
- Fourth City Status: 1861-1903
- World's Fair and Expansion: 1904-1950
- The Era of Revitilization: 1951-1999
The area that would become St. Louis is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Illini Confederacy [en.wikipedia.org], a group of 12–13 Native American tribes in the upper Mississippi River valley of North America. The tribes were the Kaskaskia, Cahokia, Peoria, Tamaroa, Moingwena, Michigamea, Chepoussa, Chinkoa, Coiraco...
Pierre Laclede Liguest, recipient of a land grant from the King of France, and his 13-year-old scout, Auguste Chouteau, selected the site of St. Louis in 1764 as a fur trading post. Laclede and Chouteau chose the location because it was not subject to flooding and was near the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. Construction of a vil...
The town gained fame in 1803 as the jumping-off point for the Louisiana Purchase Expedition of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. After 1804, more New Englanders and other East Coast emigrants settled in St. Louis, but the population remained predominantly French until well into the 19th-Century. St. Louis incorporated as a city in 1823. During th...
St. Louis's current boundaries were established in 1876, when voters approved separation from St Louis County and establishment of a home rule charter. St. Louis was the nation's first home rule city, but unlike most, it was separated from any county. Baltimore also is a similarly divided metropolis. Although this boundary would in the future prove...
One of the City's great moments came in 1904, when it hosted a World's Fair: the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, in Forest Park and the city's western edge. The 1904 Olympic games were also held in St. Louis, at Washington University's Francis Field, in conjunction with the fair. More than 20 million people visited the fair during its seven-month ru...
Urban renewal efforts and public housing development programs could not stem the tide of population loss, and in some cases contributed to the decline. Four new interstate highways cut block-wide swaths through neighborhoods, facilitating the exodus to the suburbs. Meanwhile, the last streetcar line in St. Louis, the Hodiamont, stopped operating in...
2 days ago · St. Louis, city, adjacent to but independent of St. Louis county, east-central Missouri, U.S. It lies on the west bank of the Mississippi River (bridged there at several points) opposite East St. Louis, Illinois, just south of the confluence of the Missouri River. The city’s boundaries have.
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St. Louis is an independent city in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is located near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, while its bi-state metropolitan area, which extends into Illinois, had an estimated population of over 2.8 million.
