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History of St. Louis (1866–1904)

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focused entirely on Joplin and ragtime music, ignoring the urban milieu which shaped his musical compositions. A newer heritage project has expanded coverage to include the more complex social history of black urban migration and the transformation of a multi-ethnic neighborhood to the contemporary community. Part of this diverse narrative now includes coverage of uncomfortable topics of racial oppression, poverty, sanitation, prostitution, and sexually transmitted diseases.
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over questions of taxation in the St. Louis County court. In 1867, the county court was given power to assess and collect property tax revenue from St. Louis city property, providing a financial boon to the county government while depriving city government of revenues. After this power transfer, St. Louisans in the city began to favor one of three options: greater representation on the county court via
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carried out began in 1880; in the new policy, nuisance regulations would be enforced strictly in some areas while little in others, thereby encouraging offending industries to concentrate in certain areas. The Board of Health generally avoided concentrating industries in areas with higher property values, and in general attempted to force manufacturers to the
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of Education appropriated .2% of its budget for that purpose. This sum amounted to $ 500, meaning that facilities were quite poor; long walking distances from schools were common, and teacher salaries were roughly half of those in white schools. In 1875, after considerable effort and protest from the black community, high school classes began to be offered at
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Schuler's Hall, and other operational centers of the strike, killing eighteen, arresting scores, and putting an end to the uprising. Four days later, the special police went on a triumphant march through the city. In the wake of the arrests, the city prosecutors largely refused to prosecute the prisoners.
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iconography, the Veiled Prophet Society undertook an annual parade and masqued ball to assert the cultural superiority of white Protestant America over Catholics, blacks, and other races, as well as associated vices such as intemperance, sloth, and lust. The parades portrayed the United States as the
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In spite of this, courts and legal mechanisms to end pollution were hindered by a desire to promote economic growth; if a complaint was substantiated (difficult in itself), the judgment often did not end the offending pollution but merely required damage payments. One of the few health policies to be
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and four-year mayoral terms. The new city charter also tripled the size of the city to include the new rural parks (such as Forest Park) and the useful riverfront from the Missouri-Mississippi confluence to the mouth of the River Des Peres. The Board announced its plans on July 4, 1876. Upon approval
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When Missouri became a state in 1821, St. Louis County was created from the boundaries of the former St. Louis subdistrict of the Missouri Territory; St. Louis city existed within the county but was not coterminous with it. Starting in the 1850s, rural county voters began to exert political influence
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from 1866 to 1904 was marked by rapid growth. Its population increased, making it the country's fourth-largest city after New York City, Philadelphia, and Chicago. It also saw rapid development of heavy industry, infrastructure, and transportation. The period culminated with the city's hosting of the
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from among St. Louis city and county, tasked with reorganizing them into two separate political entities. In a series of meetings in the summer of 1876, the Board of Freeholders determined that the city would "perform all functions in relation to the state as if it were a county ..." and established
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In 1864, an integrated group of St. Louisans formed the Board of Education for Colored Schools, which established schools without public finances for more than 1,500 pupils in 1865. The Missouri Constitution of 1865 required municipalities to support black education; in response, the St. Louis Board
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During the Civil War, the infrastructure of St. Louis was neglected. Typhoid fever raged in certain quarters. Another cholera epidemic struck in 1866, killing more than 3,500 people. In response, the city established the St. Louis Board of Health, which was given power to create and enforce sanitary
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celebrating the centennial of the purchase. By the end of 1900, St. Louisans had purchased more than $ 5 million in stock in the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company, and the next year, the city of St. Louis issued a bond for another $ 5 million for the company while the U.S. Congress appropriated
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By 1881, 35 militias were organized throughout the city, financed by private donations and federal money earmarked for the National Guard. These militias were paramilitary outfits, staffed by volunteers who did not report to the police or the sheriff. This exempted them from public oversight. These
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in 1900-1903 was recognized as a National Historic Landmark in 1976 and was saved from destruction by the local African American community. In 1983, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources made it the first state historic site in Missouri dedicated to the African American heritage. At first it
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In the early 1870s, new industries began to grow in St. Louis, such as cotton compressing, a process in which raw cotton is compressed for easier shipment. By 1880, St. Louis was the third-largest raw cotton market in the United States, with an overwhelming majority of it transported to the city by
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From the early 1840s, the wealthiest families of St. Louis often resided in enclaves on the outskirts of the city. In the 1850s and 1860s, many wealthy businessmen lived along Washington Avenue, but the construction of the Eads Bridge encouraged commercial development in the area. Other well-to-do
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Among the downsides to rapid industrialization was pollution, of which St. Louis generated a great deal. Brick firing produced particulate air pollution and paint making created lead dust, while beer and liquor brewing produced grain swill. However, the worst pollution was coal dust and smoke, for
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in 1842 changed much of the beer industry in the area; Lemp introduced lager beer, which quickly became the most popular type of beer in St. Louis. The industry also expanded rapidly in the late 1850s, from 24 breweries in 1854 to 40 in 1860. Brewing became the city's largest industry by 1880, but
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In 1880, the leading industries of St. Louis included brewing, flour milling, slaughtering, machining, and tobacco processing. Other industries including the making of paint, bricks, bags, and iron. During the 1880s, the city grew in population by 29 percent, from 350,518 to 451,770, making it the
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Company directors selected the western half of Forest Park as the site of the fair, sparking a real estate boom in the area. To meet anticipated demand by visitors, several hotels were constructed in downtown and the Central West End, and temporary lodging was erected in the fairgrounds itself by
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by the name of John McDonald arrived in St. Louis. He was a superintendent for the Bureau of Revenue, sent to St. Louis to collect liquor taxes from distillers and distributors, primarily of whiskey. He began a wide-ranging conspiracy predicated on under-reporting whiskey production and using the
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Following the appointment of a new Secretary of the Treasury in 1874, an investigation was begun using officials who were not affiliated with the Treasury Department. When all was said and done, 32 distilleries and bottling plants in the Midwest were seized, $ 3M in taxes were recovered, and 238
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celebrations, the bridge opened with a parade and a crowd in excess of 200,000. Costs for the bridge exceeded estimates, reaching $ 6.5 million for labor, land, and supplies, which increased to $ 9 million when including bond interest. A 5,000-foot tunnel connecting the bridge with the St. Louis
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In addition to connecting St. Louis with the west, the railroads began to demand connections with the east across the Mississippi. From 1820 to 1865 a single ferry company in Illinois controlled the majority of traffic across the river, leading to high costs and delays during winter. Plans for a
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and several other parcels of land, bringing the total fairgrounds to an area of 1,272 acres. Streetcar and rail service to the area was improved, and a new filtration system was implemented to improve the clarity of the St. Louis water supply. Other infrastructure improvements made for the fair
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When the elected sheriff refused to suppress the strike, the elites of St. Louis pooled $ 20,000 to finance the hiring of 5000 "deputized special police." These special police, along with 3000 members of the National Guard sent by the Governor and at least two cannons, sacked the Relay Depot,
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in 1875. At the convention, St. Louis area delegates took up the question of how to solve the region's city-county disputes. The delegates ruled out consolidation as too impractical and expensive from a management perspective; separation was considered the primary goal.
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to connect with regional manufacturers and growers. However, by the 1880s, the connection to agriculture had declined, and in 1883, a new exposition hall was built at Thirteenth and Olive streets to house industrial exhibits. In 1890, St. Louis attempted to host the
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in 1901, where he associated with Tom Turpin and composed music in the city until moving to Chicago in 1907. After 1906, several music clubs moved to an area known as Deep Morgan, located on Biddle Street in north St. Louis. Blues and Boogie Woogie pianists like
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of the plan by city and county voters, the city would become the County of the City of St. Louis, assume all county debt, and purchase the Old Courthouse. The county would remain the County of St. Louis but would lose access to tax revenue from city property.
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and others initially doubted it, the city eventually grew to surround the park. The park site was among the last in St. Louis County (now in St. Louis City) to contain Native American burial mounds. Although it opened as an integrated park,
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After the Civil War, school taxes increased and became largely dependent on property values. By 1870, the public and parochial school systems had 24,347 and 4,362 students respectively. Starting in the 1870s, St. Louis schools adopted
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Early efforts focused on the first option, which was to revise the county charters to force greater representation of city interests on the county court. In spite of efforts by state representatives from the city (including a young
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country's fourth largest city; it also was fourth measured by value of its manufactured products, and more than 6,148 factories existed in 1890. However, during the 1890s manufacturing growth slowed dramatically. The
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of Carondelet in 1845, but a mob attacked the convent and closed the school. Two years later, the state legislature banned education for free blacks (slave education had already been prohibited). Meachum operated
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Frustration with one-party governance continued, and was exacerbated by a series of bankruptcies and pay-cuts by large railroad companies throughout the country. Following the third pay-cut in a year by the
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and subsequent depression and the overproduction of grain made St. Louis mills considerably less productive and valuable. Flour milling was halved in production, and most other industries suffered declines.
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On May 24, 1874, a large crowd of St. Louisans were permitted on the roadway deck, and in June the bridge's weight limits were tested using a coal wagon, a train, and an elephant. On July 2, 1874, fourteen
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regulations and monitor the activities of certain polluting industries. To rectify some of the problems with the water system, a new waterworks was built in north St. Louis in 1871, accompanied by a large
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To accommodate increased rail traffic, a new railroad terminal, Union Depot, was constructed in 1875, but it was not large enough to consolidate all train service in one location. Due to the
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The development of interurban rail was marked by the 1899 consolidation of 10 independent streetcar lines into two. One of those two, the St. Louis Transit Company, was the target of the
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eventually spread to other cities, including Chicago, Milwaukee, and New Orleans. The ring expanded to include numerous Federal officials both in and outside of the Treasury department.
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included a wooden bridge at Kingshighway crossing the rail yards of Mill Creek Valley, and a street paving program that improved air quality by reducing airborne dust particulates.
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team with the same name was founded in 1882. This team changed its name multiple times, shortening to the Browns in 1883, then becoming the Perfectos in 1899, and settling on the
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remains extant after falling from popularity when the city divided a nearby park and connected the private street to the common grid. Lafayette Square remained popular until the
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were connected to St. Louis by railroad starting in 1876, allowing for the development of large estates in those areas. It also encouraged the construction of social clubs and
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industry, which originated in St. Louis in the years after the Louisiana Purchase, was limited in scope to local production during the pre-Civil War era. The arrival of
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On August 22, 1876, St. Louis voters initially appeared to have rejected the separation plan by a vote of 14,132 to 12,726. The vote, however, was fraudulent; in one
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St. Louis then hosted the 12th Democratic National Convention in June 1876. In response to the corruption of the Republican party, the Democratic Party nominated
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and built in 1892, still stands at Chestnut and Seventh Streets, and is today used by the state of Missouri as a government office building. Corporations such as
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dug holes in lots to produce brick, stone and soil for the building trades. These holes often filled with industrial waste, sewage, garbage, and dirty runoff.
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The development of private places in the Central West End during the 1890s coincided with the rise of country estates in St. Louis County. The rural towns of
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operated a club and sponsored ragtime playing contests starting in the mid-1890s. Several well-known ragtime artists played at Turpin's club, including
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bridge over the river had begun as early as 1839, but were abandoned due to cost. After the Civil War bridges across the Mississippi were completed at
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after the fair. While in operation, the fair celebrated American expansionism and world cultures with exhibits of historical French fur-trading, and
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It is asserted that the police organized an annual parade for the next twenty years where they displayed the weapons used to murder the protesters.
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areas included Lucas Place and Lafayette Square, which were developed in the 1850s and peaked in popularity in the 1870s. Of Lucas Place, only the
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in 1874. Despite early objections to the idea, kindergarten was particularly popular in St. Louis, serving 7,800 students by the end of the 1870s.
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also was a problem, as many residential areas were intermixed with industrial areas. In spite of efforts to fill sinkholes before the Civil War,
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St. Louis also expanded its park system during the 1860s and 1870s. Besides the common fields which were converted into Lafayette Park, in 1868
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difference to enrich themselves and moreover to fund Republican party political campaigns, including Grant's 1872 re-election campaign. The
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played regularly in the Deep Morgan area (Among other blues numbers he recorded Deep Morgan Blues). In Deep Morgan, ragtime evolved into
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The TRRA invited ten architects to submit designs for the station with general requirements as to the size of the building. The design by
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The fair itself consisted of an "Ivory City" of twelve temporary exhibition palaces, and one permanent exhibit palace which became the
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Timothy Baumann, et al. "Interpreting Uncomfortable History at the Scott Joplin House State Historic Site in St. Louis, Missouri."
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loaded with coal pulled onto each span, putting to rest concerns about the bridge's safety. Two days later, as part of the city's
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favored by many bridge builders at the time would require at least five separate spans. Thus, Eads and his German assistants,
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technique. However, the effects of pneumatic caissons were poorly understood, leading to the deaths of 14 workers due to
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in the Mississippi River during the 1840s and 1850s; and local black churches also operated secret schools in basements.
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system, nearby streets had commercialized by 1910. This commercialization led the wealthy to move farther west, to the
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over the summer months of 1900, a strike that developed into a civil disruption, leaving 14 dead and hundreds injured.
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conducted a public demonstration of his wireless lighting and power transmission system here in 1893. Addressing the
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The greatest complaints to the St. Louis Board of Health, however, were due to the presence of industries engaged in
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regained political control in Missouri for the first time after the Civil War, prompting the rewriting of the
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Excavations for the bridge piers began in September 1867 and continued through 1871, using the relatively new
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schools for African-Americans had begun in the 1820s under the tutelage of ministers John Mason Peck and
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The negotiations on how to proceed among the St. Louis delegates stalled, however, until the arrival of
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In response to the Great Upheaval, a group of St. Louis businessmen and former Confederates—including
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However, reported revenue of brewers in St. Louis suggests that the 1900 figure (derived from the
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neighborhood, which included the private places of Westmoreland Place, Portland Place, and
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began to be played in St. Louis in the years following the Civil War; a team known as the
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Starting in the 1890s, the district known as Chestnut Valley (an area now occupied by the
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played in Chestnut Valley, while vaudeville theaters in the area featured acts such as
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wirelessly. Tesla proposed this wireless technology could incorporate a system for the
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which St. Louis was infamous by the 1890s. Nearly every factory relied on coal to fire
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militias were organized to suppress further workers' strikes, most notably with the
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was founded in the city in 1875. The Brown Stockings were a founding member of the
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persuaded the General Assembly to deny changes to the county charter. In 1873, the
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Since the 1850s, St. Louis had hosted annual agricultural and mechanical fairs at
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dropped from the nation's second-largest beer producer in 1890 to fifth in 1900.
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people were indicted. One of the individuals implicated in the conspiracy was
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logical and proper end to history, and yet until 1899, did not reference the
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railroad yards and costs to modify streets were approximately $ 2 million.
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After Lafayette Square, wealthy St. Louisans moved during the 1890s to a
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St. Louis is one of several cities that claims to have the world's first
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was approved in July 1891. Construction costs were $ 6.5 million, and
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laws eventually restricted the use of the park by African-Americans.
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The St. Louis Veiled Prophet Celebration: Power on Parade, 1877-1995
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and John Priest, the chief of police—organized the creation of the
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In addition to the early Chestnut Valley players, ragtime composer
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operator. During the Civil War Eads aided the Union by designing
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the provisions of the city charter, including the creation of 28
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Saint Louis, the Commercial Metropolis of the Mississippi Valley
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in 1878. Drawing on influences including New Orleans Mardi Gras
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During the 1880s, St. Louis also was home to another club, the
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was built in 1894 to consolidate railroad service in St. Louis
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across the Mississippi due to multiple recent failures, and a
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known as Vandeventer Place, but due to the expansion of the
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were held in St. Louis, at what would become the campus of
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Humboldt Monument at Tower Grove Park, photographed by
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neighborhoods. Other industries congregated along the
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in 1886 for $ 3.5 million. In 1889, Gould formed the
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History of St. Louis
Apotheosis of Saint Louis
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1866–1904
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Timeline
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standpipe at Grand Avenue
Laclede Gaslight Company

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Cotton Belt Railroad

Henry Shaw
Tower Grove Park
Forest Park
St. Louis Globe Democrat
Jim Crow
William Torrey Harris
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