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In 1913, Nelson Cunliff became Commissioner of Parks and Recreation for St. Louis City. Public floral conservatories gained popularity in the city in the 1910s, when pollution and smog threatened much of the city's flora. Due to high levels of smoke and soot within the city, he began a survey to determine which plants could survive the ...
From Interstate 44 west of St. Louis, take exit 261 (Allenton-Six Flags), then go north on Allenton Road and take an immediate left on Fox Creek; stay on Fox Creek for 2 miles (3.2 km). 1,393 acres 564 ha: St. Louis
City Museum is a museum whose exhibits consist largely of repurposed architectural and industrial objects, housed in the former International Shoe building in the Washington Avenue Loft District of St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Opened in October 1997, the museum attracted more than 700,000 visitors in 2010.
With the 2024 growing season on the horizon, you may wonder what tasks you can do now to optimize your fruit production this year. While you still have some leeway in suggested garden maintenance ...
The Columbia Bottom Conservation Area is a 4,256-acre (17.22 km 2) conservation area located on the south side of the Missouri River at its confluence with the Mississippi River. The conservation area, which is located in eastern St. Louis County, Missouri, north of the city of St. Louis, is operated by the Missouri Department of Conservation.
Beginning in 1907 and 1915 respectively, the St. Louis Art Museum and the St. Louis Zoo were both publicly funded by property taxes paid by residents of St. Louis City. Zoo chairman Howard Baer and his successor, Circuit Judge Thomas F. McGuire, worked with their supporters to secure the statute to establish the district. H.B. 23 authorized a ...
The Missouri Botanical Garden is a botanical garden located at 4344 Shaw Boulevard in St. Louis, Missouri. It is also known informally as Shaw's Garden for founder and philanthropist Henry Shaw . Its herbarium , with more than 6.6 million specimens, [ 3 ] is the second largest in North America, behind that of the New York Botanical Garden .
A longshot candidate for Missouri governor and his supporters describe his use of a flamethrower at a recent “Freedom Fest” event outside St. Louis as no big deal. “From a dramatic sense, if ...