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Early settlements in Missouri Settlement Founding Mine La Motte: 1717 settlement Ste. Genevieve: 1750, 1735-1785 [21] [22] St. Louis [17] [23] 1764 Carondelet: 1767, St. Louis annex 1870 St. Charles: 1769 Mine à Breton: 1770, 1760-1780 [24] New Madrid: 1783, 1789 [25] [26] Florissant: 1786 Commerce: 1788 Cape Girardeau: 1792 Wolf Island: 1792
Another early settlement near present-day St. Louis, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, was built in 1732 across from the Kaskaskia village as a convenient port for salt and ore mined on the western side of the Mississippi. [8]
Early settlements in Missouri Settlement Founding Mine La Motte: 1717 settlement Ste. Genevieve: 1750, 1735–1785 [11] St. Louis: 1764 Carondelet: 1767, St. Louis annex 1870 St. Charles: 1769 Mine à Breton: 1770, 1760–1780 [16] New Madrid: 1783, 1789 [17] Florissant: 1786 Commerce: 1788 Cape Girardeau: 1792 Wolf Island: 1792 Saint Michel ...
Location of Ste. Genevieve County in Missouri. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, United States.
French trading companies also built towns during the 1720s and 1730s, including Fort de Chartres and Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, the first European town in Missouri west of the Mississippi. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] From 1756 to 1760, fighting in the French and Indian War (the North American front of the Seven Years' War ) halted settlement building.
Ste. Genevieve, Missouri: ca. 1800 Residence It is a poteaux-sur-sol house built by Auguste Aubuchon. [2] It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a part of the National Historic Landmark Ste. Genevieve Historic District. Private residence Moses Austin Outbuilding: Ste. Genevieve, Missouri: ca. 1800 Residence
Founded around 1740 by Canadian settlers and migrants from settlements in the Illinois Country just east of the Mississippi River, Ste. Geneviève is the oldest permanent European settlement in Missouri. It was named for Saint Genevieve (who lived in the 5th century AD), the patron saint of Paris, the capital of France. While most residents ...
Ste. Genevieve County is located on the west bank of the Mississippi River approximately 60 miles (97 km) south of St. Louis. Ste. Genevieve is the principal town and the county seat of Ste. Genevieve County with a population of around 5,000 people. Ste. Genevieve was the first permanent civilized settlement in Missouri.