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In recent years St. Louis has had the dubious distinction of being one of the top cities is America for sexually transmitted diseases. But this is not just a recent phenomenon and the city once thought it had a solution."In St. Louis there were
William McChesney Martin was a real St. Louis whiz kid. He was born in St. Louis in 1906. The son of the first agent in charge of the federal reserve bank of St. Louis. When William McChesney Martin Jr. did something he never did it half way.He
In the turn of the 20th century William Keeney Bixby was the richest man in St. Louis. He was the President of the American Car and Foundry Company. He was also railroad man. His 45 room Victorian mansion was his. But, he is not the man who bui
There are skirmishes you have to dig to find in the history books because they were sideshows to a much bigger battle.The War of 1812, ostensibly between Britain and the United States, ended up also being fought between Americans and Native Ame
The Civil War was fought largely with guns and cannons. But a damaged sword carried in a famous St. Louis battle tells the story of a defeat felt deeply by the man who carried it."Well you have probably seen John Knapp's sword. It is not in one
When we turn on the tap and cool clean water comes out. Not much news there. But a little more than a century ago st. Louis water was the color of the river it came from. Until something came to town that changed everything."The water that came
Doctors make medical breakthroughs all the time. But some are bigger than others and one was bigger than most. It was the vaccine that ended the terror of polio. Frequently contracted at this time of year. But what was it like in St. Louis befo
The year was 1818 and the people of the Missouri territory were petitioning the federal government for statehood. But at the time the 22 existing states were evenly divided between free states and slave states. With more than 2000 slaves alread
It began as a beer garden in 1896 but did so poorly it was hastily reborn as an amusement park called the Forest Park Highlands."An amusement park in those days was not to be confused with Disneyland or Six Flags. The amusement park had everyth
When General Ulysses S. Grant became president he and the first lady brought their four children with them to the White House. Their daughter Nellie quickly became the toast of Washington high society."She goes off on this grand tour of Europe,
Thomas Jefferson bought the state of Missouri in a deal known as the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. The Gateway Arch is on the grounds of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial. While he never saw it for himself a significant part of Jefferson'
Many memorials in the 19th century were made of the deceased hair."You knew that you were never going to see them again... and contemplating their hair or at least having something that represented a part of that person was a way of simulating
Lewis and Clark set off on their exploration of the West from Missouri. A St. Louis man is also noted as one of the most famous explorers of the American West.He made a name for himself in many ways, as a military officer, as an explorer of the
Adolphus Busch was a teenager when he moved from Germany to St. Louis in 1857. Busch had little experience making beer even though his family sold brewery supplies. But he had other talents."He was a marketing genius and a salesman of epic prop
He began like the Wright Brothers as a bicycle maker. But unlike the Wright brothers, Glenn Curtiss' dreams were about flying down the road on a motorcycle powered by his version of a V-8 engine."So when people were looking around for engines t
Everyone in St. Louis knows this is the famous Eads bridge. But a decade before it was built James Eads was famous for building something else in St. Louis."One of the things he figured out was that you could build an iron clad river vessel tha
If you've ever been to the arch chances are you've seen the movie about how it was the gateway to the West was created.But the man who created the film itself cast a long shadow as well, as a pioneer not of the west but of the documentary.His n
Murder has been considered a crime ever since the ten commandments were handed down at Mount Sinai. There was a time in St. Louis when it was, under certain circumstances, acceptable.Bloody Island was really was an island and it really was bloo
You've probably heard the name Audubon as in the Audubon Society. But, Audubon is also the name of a famous man whose exploits have ties to St. Louis."St. Louis of course was the jumping off point for the west and anybody headed west came throu
If you think the story of Annie Malone is just about an orphanage then you don't know much about her. She was born and raised in Metropolis, Illinois. She came to St. Louis to seek her fortune. She produced a line of hair care products for Afri
In its salad days Fairground park was a wonder. It started out as a private park owned by the Agriculture and Mechanics organization."And they purchased the park in 1856 and began what was called the agricultural and mechanical fair and that wa
It rose up on land that had once been the city's common fields and it began as a much smaller structure in 1826.But, the city was growing so rapidly that by the late 1830's a new building was built and that's the one we call the old courthouse.
Wagner Electric was a company based on the premise that the future lay with alternating current."The problem of course with direct current is it will kill you really quickly and alternating current is a much better option." said Dr. Robert Arch
Some of Lewis and Clark's relatives were just famous and interesting."George Rogers Clark in any textbook on American history in the 19th century would have come across as one of the great heroes of the revolutionary war." said Dr. Robert Archi
The rest of the world knew very little about the Chinese in 1904. What they did know they didn't like.Many in the West considered China feudal and backward. In the United States racism against Chinese immigrants had existed since they first cam
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