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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]
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.
The history of St. Louis, Missouri from 1763 to 1803 was marked by the transfer of French Louisiana to Spanish control, the founding of the city of St. Louis, its slow growth and role in the American Revolution under the rule of the Spanish, the transfer of the area to American control in the Louisiana Purchase, and its steady growth and prominence since then.
1816 – Bank of St. Louis incorporated. [10] 1818 Saint Louis Academy founded. [11] Baptist Church built. [1] 1819 – Erin Benevolent Society founded. [1] 1820 June: Missouri constitutional convention held. [4] September: Missouri General Assembly convenes. [6] 1821 St. Louis becomes part of the new U.S. state of Missouri. City Directory ...
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.
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]
Three members of the Desloge family have been "Queen of Love and Beauty" at the Veiled Prophet Ball, a debutante ball held in December in St. Louis: Anne Kennett Farrar Desloge (daughter of Joseph Desloge Sr.) in 1946, her cousin and goddaughter Diane Waring Desloge (daughter of William L. Desloge) in 1962, [35] and Katherine Falk Desloge ...
The earliest settlements in the St. Louis area were built by the people of the Mississippian culture, who constructed more than two dozen burial mounds within what would become the city of St. Louis. [1] The earliest mounds in the area date to approximately 1050, but much about the mound builders in St. Louis is unknown. [2]