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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 park contains part of the site of Fort Bellefontaine, a fortified post of the United States Army first raised in 1805. The post was visited by Lewis and Clark Expedition upon their return to St. Louis in September 1806. It remained in active service, in two adjacent locations, until 1826. None of the fort remains today.
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 ...
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The Wilson Larimore House is at historic building and site built in 1858, located at 11510 Larimore Road in Bellefontaine Neighbors, St. Louis County, Missouri. It also goes by the name the Larimore House Plantation, or simply the Larimore House. Formerly this was a working plantation with enslaved labor. [2]
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 .
Bellefontaine Neighbors (/ b ɛ l ˈ f aʊ n t ən / bel-FOWN-tən) is an inner-ring suburban city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States. The population was 10,740 at the 2020 census . [ 5 ]
John Berry Meachum (May 3, 1789 – February 26, 1854) was an American pastor, businessman, educator and founder of the First African Baptist Church in St. Louis, the oldest black church west of the Mississippi River.