History of St Louis, Missouri, USA

Journey back in time to St Louis, Missouri, USA

• 1764 - February 15 - St. Louis, Missouri founded as a French trading post by Pierre Laclade Ligue
  
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• 1804 - May 14 - Lewis & Clark set out from St Louis for Pacific Coast
  
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• 1806 - September 23 - Lewis & Clark return to St Louis from Pacific Northwest
  
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• 1808 - The first newspaper, the Missouri Gazette, began publication in St. Louis
  
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• 1816 - August 24 - The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.
  
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• 1832 - Saint Louis University received a formal charter from the state of Missouri in 1832, making it the oldest University west of the Mississippi.
  
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• 1847 - St. Louis connected to the East by telegraph
  
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•  1849 - May 17 – The St. Louis Fire starts when a steamboat catches fire and nearly burns down the entire city.
  From the St. Louis Union.
  TREMENDOUS CONFLAGRATION!
  23 Steamboats Burned!
  SEVERAL SQUARES IN ASHES.
  LOSS OF LIFE!!
  Five Millions of Property...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1849 - A cholera epidemic struck St. Louis - over 4000 people died
  
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• 1854 - St Louis
  St. Louis, a city, port of entry, and seat of justice of St. Louis county. Missouri, is situated on the right bank of the Mississippi river, 20 miles ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1857 - The Dred Scott decision handed down by U.S. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney;
  the case originated in St. Louis. Scott was allowed to sue for his freedom from slavery based on the fact that he had previously lived in a free...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1866 - MISSOURI - DESTRUCTIVE TORNADO AT ST. LOUIS. BUILDINGS UNROOFED AND DEMOLISHED - MANY PERSONS INJURED - DAMAGES ESTIMATED AT $100,000.
  St. Louis, Monday, Oct. 22.
  The most terrific wind storm that ever visited this section of the country swept over this city at 4:30 yesterday...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1869 - A St. Louis dispatch of the 22d reports that General Sherman had been quite ill for several days past.
  
  St Joseph Herald
  Saint Joseph, Michigan
  January 30, 1869
  
  
•  1870 - Fires
  St. Louis, Mo., July 8. - The freight warehouses of the St. Louis and Vandalia, and Illinois Control Railroad Companies, on Second-street, between...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1870 - The first train of the Atlantic-Pacific Railway, which became the St.Louis-San Francisco Railway, or "Frisco," arrived in 1870.
  
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•  1873 - Surprising Outcome
  A charitable lady of St. Louis sent one of her last year's dresses to a destitute woman on the 6th. She was somewhat surprised to have it returned...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Scenes in St. Louis
  Picturesque America... Oliver Bell Bunce, William Cullen Bryant
  New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1872-1874.
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•  1876 - Barge Hits Booneville Bridge
  A barge was crushed against the Booneville Bridge, near St. Louis, on Tuesday. Six lives were lost. The barge had 1,000 bushels of corn on board.
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  Raleigh, North Carolina
  April 13, 1876
  
  
•  1877 - July 16 – Great railroad strike of 1877:
  Riots by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad railroad workers in Baltimore, Maryland lead to a sympathy strike and rioting in Pittsburgh, and a full-scale...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Stronger than the Law Shoe
  Originated and Made Only By
  Roberts, Johnson & Rand Shoe Co.
  St. Louis, U.S.A.
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  1880s
  Bogards Fine Shoes
  St. Louis
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• 1882 - St. Louis
  It was nearly a century and a quarter ago that St: Louis's first arrival proclaimed the site of the future metropolis of the Mississippi Valley. In...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1887 - A CIRCUS TRAIN WRECKED. WILD ANIMALS ESCAPE, BUT ARE EASILY CAPTURED - ONE MAN KILLED.
  St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 3 - JOHN ROBINSON'S circus train was wrecked at the Union Station this evening, and a pair of lions, a tiger, a leopard, and a...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1888 - In St Louis on the 13th a case of leprosy was discovered, the patient being Choo Fay, a Chinese laundryman. Fay has been in this country several years.
  
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  Saint Joseph, Michigan
  March 17, 1888
  
  
•  1889 - The malt-house attached to the Anheuser-Busch brewery in St. Louis was burned on the 3d, causing a loss of $200,000.
  
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  Saint Joseph, Michigan
  February 9, 1889
  
  
•  1890 - March 31 - Saint Louis, MO, received 20 inches of snow in 24 hours.
  
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  March 31, 1890
  
  
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  Rexpirin Brand Tablets
  United Drug Company
  Boston - St. Louis, USA
  Found at The Way It Was Museum, Virginia City, Nevada
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  Gold Medal Antacid Powder
  S. Pfeiffer Mfg. Co.
  St. Louis, Mo.
  Found at The Way It Was Museum, Virginia City, Nevada
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  Gold Medal Cough Medicine
  Blackberry Root, Ginger, Cinnamon, Clove, Anise Compound
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  St. Louis, Mo.
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  Various medicinal remedies from St. Louis, Mo.
  Found at The Way It Was Museum, Virginia City, Nevada
  
  Rexall Iron, Liver and Bone Marrow Compound
  Trio-Carb Tablets
  Dr. J. H. McLean's Cordial
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  Rid-A-Pain
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  St. Louis, Mo.
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•  1893 - February 1, Thunder and lightning accompanied sleet and snow at Saint Louis MO during the evening hours, even though the temperature was just 13 degrees above zero.
  
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  February 1, 1893
  
  
•  1895 - Blizzard - THE STORM STILL HOVERS OVER THE UNITED STATES. IT IS SEVEREST IN THE EAST. TRAFFIC ALMOST ENTIRELY AT A STANDSTILL -- RAILROAD TRAINS BLOCKADED -- BUSINESS PARALYZED -- PEOPLE FROZEN TO DEATH AT SEVERAL PLACES...
  ...Temperature In Missouri.
  St. Louis, Feb. 9. - A special to The Republic from Centralia, Mo., says: "The mercury registered 27 degrees below zero...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1895 - St Louis
  Saint Louis, sent loo'is or loo'ee (Fr. sáN" loo'ee'), the chief city of Missouri, the fifth in population of the cities of the United States, and a...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1896 - St. Louis, Mo. - May 27, 1896 - Twister
  The tornado that came through St. Louis, Missouri on May 27th, 1896 originally formed only six miles west of the Eads Bridge. It swept away or...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1897 - VAULTS SAVE. St. Louis' Largest Jewelry Firm From Being Wiped Out by Fire. BUILDING AND ALL GO. But Half of the Stock Was Saved by Being in Fire Proof Vaults. FAMILY'S NARROW ESCAPE.
  St. Louis, Dec. 19. - Fire started in the basement of the building occupied by the Mermod & Jaccard Jewelry Company, at the corner of Locust street...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Women Know the vital importance of pure food and drink. That accounts for the success of
  
  Blanke's Kofeko
  The original malted grain coffee
  
  C. F. Blanke & Co., St. Louis, U.S.A.
  
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  February 1898
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  "My Health is My Fortune"
  Ralston Health Club Breakfast Food
  Breakfast for a 2 Cent Stamp
  Purina Mills, St. Louis, Mo.
  
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  October 1898
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• 1899 - St. Louis - John S. Thurman invented the gasoline powered vacuum cleaner (which he called the "pneumatic carpet renovator") in 1899.
  His vacuum was patented on Oct. 3, 1899 (patent #634,042). It may have been the first motorized vacuum cleaner. Thurman had a run a horse drawn,...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Arcade Building, 8th and Olive to Pine St., St. Louis, Mo.
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• 1901 - St. Louis - The Future Great by William Marion Reedy
  Situated at the heart of the continent, between the East and West, the North and South, St. Louis is a unique mixture of the characteristics of all...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1904 - IN ST. LOUIS. Tornado Kills Two and Injures Many — Heavy Property Loss.
  St. Louis, Aug. 20.— A tornado of small proportions but of extreme fury, swept down upon the residence portion of North St. Louis Friday, resulting...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1904 - July 1 – The third Modern Olympic Games opens in St. Louis, Missouri, United States as part of the World's Fair.
  There were only representatives from 13 countries. Eighty-five percent of the competitors were Americans, and eight percent were Canadians.
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  July 1, 1904
  
  
•  1904 - TEN DROP TO THEIR DEATH - EMPLOYES OF THE BROWN SHOE COMPANY AT ST. LOUIS CROWD AT ELEVATOR. BREAK DOWN THE GUARDS
  And Shove Those Next to the Carriage Into the Shaft and To a Fatal Fall of Six Stories.
  
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• 1904 - April 30 – The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri (closes December 1).
  Ice-cream cones were first served in 1904 at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition world's fair in St. Louis. Also, at the St. Louis World's Fair in...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1905 - The Gateway Arch (Jefferson National Expansion Memorial) was completed in St. Louis
  
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• 1906
  Saint Louis, sent loo'is or loo'ee, the chief city of Missouri and the fourth in population of the cities of the United States, is situated on the W. ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1907 - Scalp Surgery
  Miss Elizabeth Gallighan, of St. Louis, leaned too near a fast revolving fly wheel in the shoe factory in which she is employed and her entire scalp...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  April 26, 1921: First U.S. weather report broadcast, by WEW in St. Louis, Missouri
  
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  April 26, 1921
  
  
•  1927 - September 29 - A tornado (possibly two tornadoes) cut an eight-mile long path across Saint Louis MO, to Granite City IL, killing 79 persons. The damage path at times was a mile and a quarter in width.
  
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  September 29, 1927
  
  
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  Municipal Courts Building, St. Louis, Mo.
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  Missouri Botanical Gardens - Shaw's Garden - St. Louis, Missouri
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•  1959 - February 10 - Tornado in St Louis kills 19 & injures 265
  
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  February 10, 1959