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Bellefontaine, Missouri. 1 language. ... Bellefontaine took its name from nearby Bellefontaine Lead Mine. [2] The community once had Bellefontaine Schoolhouse, now ...
Gen. Daniel Bissell House (also known as Franklinville Farm or Bissell Manor) is a historic house at 10225 Bellefontaine Road in Bellefontaine Neighbors, Missouri that was the home of Revolutionary War General Daniel Bissell (general). The Federal style house was built in 1819 and added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 28 ...
The Upper Mississippi River during the War of 1812. 1: Fort Belle Fontaine U.S. headquarters; 2: Fort Osage, abandoned 1813; 3: Fort Madison, defeated 1813; 4: Fort Shelby, defeated 1814; 5: Battle of Rock Island Rapids, July 1814 and the Battle of Credit Island, Sept. 1814; 6: Fort Johnson, abandoned 1814; 7: Fort Cap au Gris and the Battle of the Sink Hole, May 1815.
The property contains the main house, a shed, a barn, and a brick outhouse. [2] The main house was built in an early Italianate architecture style and has two stories. [2] It was an example of the transition from traditional architecture of mid-19th century building, to the newer Italianate style that emerging in the area and as of 1988, it had maintained many of its original architectural ...
Bellefontaine Neighbors was incorporated as a fourth-class city in 1950, with a population of 766 people. At the time, the city had 18 streets, one public school, and one church, the Bellefontaine Methodist Church. Between 1950 and 1960, the population of Bellefontaine Neighbors grew rapidly, reaching 13,650 people by 1960.
Bellefontaine Cemetery is a nonprofit, non-denominational cemetery and arboretum in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1849 as a rural cemetery , Bellefontaine has several architecturally significant monuments and mausoleums such as the Louis Sullivan -designed Wainwright Tomb , which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places .
The Fort Belle Fontaine County Park is a unit of the park system of St. Louis County, Missouri. 305.6 acres in size, it is bordered by the Missouri River, by Cold Water Creek, and by the Missouri Hills campus of the Missouri Division of Youth Services (M-DYS). [1]
The "Missouri Crisis" was resolved at first in 1820 when the Missouri Compromise cleared the way for Missouri's entry to the union as a slave state. The Missouri Compromise stated that the remaining portion of the Louisiana Territory above the 36°30′ line was to be free from slavery. This same year, the first Missouri constitution was adopted.