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Clayton is a city in and the county seat of St. Louis County, Missouri, and borders the independent city of St. Louis. The population was 17,355 at the 2020 census . [ 4 ] Organized in 1877, the city was named after Ralph Clayton, a citizen who donated the land for the St. Louis County courthouse.
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Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; ... Clayton Township is a township in St. Louis County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. [1]
Missouri Rhineland, the area that pioneered the production of local German style wines and German settlement of Missouri; Tower Grove South, a large neighborhood to the north of Dutchtown; Westliche Post, a later St. Louis German daily paper, where Joseph Pulitzer (who would later buy it and merge it to form the Post-Dispatch) started
St. Louis City and St. Louis County separated in 1876 and left the county at its current size of 524 square miles (1,360 km 2). After Clayton, Missouri was chosen as the permanent county seat, a courthouse and jail were built in December 1878.
Founded in 1892 as a polo club, in 1895, the club moved to a site in the city of Clayton where it hired James Foulis, winner of the 1896 United States Open Golf Championship, to build a nine-hole course. The course opened in October 1896. In 1913, with Clayton becoming more populated, the club looked to move further west.
Fontbonne University is a private Catholic university in Clayton, Missouri. [2] Fontbonne University, established in 1923 as Fontbonne College, initially served as a women's college. Fontbonne College became co-educational in the 1970s. Its athletic teams compete in the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. In 2023, there were 874 ...
Clayton station is a light rail station on the Blue Line of the St. Louis MetroLink system. [5] This at-grade station is located in the median of Forest Park Parkway between South Central Avenue and South Meramec Avenue in downtown Clayton. Public parking is available in the attached county garage.