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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.
Clayton Township is a township in St. Louis County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. [1] Its population was 35,446 as of the 2010 census. [2] References
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.
The park is west of St. Louis County District Courthouse and adjacent to Clayton High School. [1] Shaw Park was founded in 1935 under Mayor Charles A. Shaw. [2] The park was dedicated in 1937 and cost $280,000, with $30,000 coming from the city of Clayton and the rest coming from the federal government.
The district, commonly referred to as “DeMun,” is a neighborhood straddling the city limits of St. Louis, Missouri and Clayton, Missouri. The district is roughly bounded by Clayton Road to the south, Big Bend Boulevard to the west, Northwood Avenue to the north, and Skinker Boulevard to the east, and consists of two subdivisions: DeMun Park ...
The museum, which was free to enter, [9] was immediately popular with the public, but within a few years, the academy was struggling to fund its maintenance. Similar funding problems with the Saint Louis Zoo and the Saint Louis Art Museum led city leaders in 1969 to propose a tax levy to support all three institutions. When voters approved the ...
Other incorporations before World War I included University City in 1906 near Washington University in St. Louis; Maplewood in 1908, also along the Missouri Pacific railroad line; Wellston in 1908 in the inner north county; Shrewsbury in 1913 east of Webster Groves; Clayton in 1913 south of University City; and Richmond Heights in 1913 south of ...
The Brentmoor Park, Brentmoor and Forest Ridge District is a historic district comprising three private subdivisions in the city of Clayton, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, that were platted in 1910, 1911, and 1913, respectively by Henry Wright. [2] [3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [1]