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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.
The original Old Bethlehem Lutheran Cemetery, on Church Road behind the Holy Cross Catholic Parish, was closed in 1949 and relocated to the New Bethlehem Cemetery, four miles north on Bellefontaine Road in the North St. Louis County suburb of Bellefontaine Neighbors, which still operates today, offering interment space to patrons of all faiths ...
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.
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 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]
Spanish Lake prospered in the nineteenth century, as a crossroads farming village came into being. The Bellefontaine Road area was settled largely after General Bissell relocated Fort Bellefontaine. Fort Bellefontaine was established in 1806 by Gen. James Wilkerson, governor of the territory of Louisiana.
State Route 47 (SR 47) is a state highway running from the Indiana border at Union City to Waldo, about ten miles (16 km) south of Marion.In Bellefontaine, State Route 47 follows the path of different streets (even though neither are one-way) from Main Street and Sandusky Avenue to the intersection just north of Mary Rutan Hospital, about one-half mile north of the Main-Sandusky intersection.
State Route 540 (SR 540) is an east–west state highway in the western portion of the U.S. state of Ohio. SR 540 has its western terminus in downtown Bellefontaine at a signalized intersection with U.S. Route 68 (US 68) and SR 47. Its eastern terminus is at a T-intersection with SR 292 approximately 3.50 miles (5.63 km) southwest of West ...