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In 2011 St. Louis was named by U.S. News & World Report as the most dangerous city in the United States, using Uniform Crime Reports data published by the U.S. Department of Justice. [266] In addition, St. Louis was named as the city with the highest crime rate in the United States by CQ Press in 2010, using data reported to the FBI in 2009. [267]
These farmers moved to outlying towns founded after St. Louis, including Carondelet (originally called Delor's Village or Vide Poche), which was founded in 1767 by an ex-naval officer near the mouth of the River Des Peres. [38] The village in 1796 had 181 residents, and it normally produced food surpluses for the area. [39]
His son, also named John Fitzgerald Lee (1848–1926), served as president of the St. Louis Bar Association, president of the David Rankin School of Mechanical Trades, and board member of the St. Louis Public Library. A dormitory on Washington University is named after this younger John F. Lee. [4]
1800 – St. Louis becomes part of French Louisiana. [3] 1804 St. Louis becomes part of U.S. territory per Louisiana Purchase. [3] Post Office established. [5] 1805 – St. Louis becomes capital of the U.S. Louisiana Territory. [3] [6] 1808 – Missouri Gazette newspaper begins publication. [7] 1809 Town incorporated. [1] Missouri Fur Company ...
Originally founded as Villanueva de La Serena, the city was destroyed completely in a native uprising in 1549 and re-founded the same year as San Bartolomé de La Serena; its founding date is for this reason sometimes listed as 1549. Second oldest European city in Chile. 1545: Potosí: Potosí: Bolivia: 1545 San Juan de los Remedios: Villa ...
In 1926, Douglass University, a historically black university was founded by B. F. Bowles in St. Louis, and at the time no other college in St. Louis County admitted black students. [36] In the first half of the 20th century, St. Louis was a destination in the Great Migration of African Americans from the rural South seeking better opportunities.
The history of St. Louis, Missouri from 1804 to 1865 included the creation of St. Louis as the territorial capital of the Louisiana Territory, a brief period of growth until the Panic of 1819 and subsequent depression, rapid diversification of industry after the introduction of the steamboat and the return of prosperity, and rising tensions about the issues of immigration and slavery.
His father, also John Fitzgerald Lee, was a former Judge Advocate General of the United States Army [3] and the first Judge Advocate General since the position had been vacant since 1802. [4] Lee attended Georgetown University and the University of Virginia. [5] Starting in 1870, he practiced law in St. Louis at the law firm of A. and J.F. Lee [5]