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Concord is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States. The population was 16,421 at the 2010 census. [ 4 ] It should not be confused with Concord Township , which the CDP shares much land with, but these areas' boundaries are not identical.
St. Louis Place Park: 1850 Pontiac Square Park 1908 Strodtman Park 1924 Ray Leisure Park 1958 Tandy Park 1918 River Des Peres Extension 1954 Turner Playground 1937 River Des Peres Park: 1926 Unity Park 2004 Sister Marie Charles Park 1982 Vivian Astra Park 1921 Soulard Market Park 1908 W. C. Handy Park 1941 St. Louis Square Park 1882 Walnut Park ...
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.
Beginning in 1907 and 1915 respectively, the St. Louis Art Museum and the St. Louis Zoo were both publicly funded by property taxes paid by residents of St. Louis City. Zoo chairman Howard Baer and his successor, Circuit Judge Thomas F. McGuire, worked with their supporters to secure the statute to establish the district. H.B. 23 authorized a ...
St. Louis County bought site in 1958 and 1960. The sale was funded by a bond issue and the sale of land to the Missouri Department of Transportation for development of Interstate 270. Between 1963 and 1981 the park included a "Lion's Pit" which was built by the local branch of the Lion's Club. The pit was removed because it was being used after ...
At the time, it was the third largest municipal park in the nation (after Central Park in New York and Forest Park in neighboring St. Louis). [1] It first appears as Grand Marais State Park on a 1953 road map, after previously being identified as Lake Park in 1949. [2]
The memorial was developed largely through the efforts of St. Louis civic booster Luther Ely Smith who first pitched the idea in 1933, was the long-term chairman of the committee that selected the area and persuaded Franklin Roosevelt in 1935 to make it a National Park Service unit after St. Louis passed a bond issue to begin building it and ...