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West Lake Landfill is a closed, unlined mixed-waste landfill located in Bridgeton, Missouri. It was featured in the 2015 documentaries The First Secret City , [ 1 ] The Safe Side of the Fence and the 2017 HBO documentary Atomic Homefront .
Times Beach is a ghost town in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States, 17 miles (27 km) southwest of St. Louis and 2 miles (3 km) east of Eureka.Once home to more than two thousand people, the town was completely evacuated in early 1983 due to TCDD (a type of dioxin) contamination, formerly the largest civilian exposure to the compound in the history of the United States.
Laclede Gas Light Co was chartered in Missouri on March 2, 1857, named for Pierre Laclède, the founder of the city of St. Louis. [1] In 1905, North American Company , a public utilities conglomerate, acquired St. Louis United Railways, the consolidated streetcar company in St. Louis, which operated as St. Louis Transit Company.
In 2014, St. Louis was ranked as the 19th most dangerous city in the world by the Mexican aid organization CCSP-JP (El Consejo Ciudadano para la Seguridad Publica y la Justicia Penal). [32] As of 2017, St. Louis is ranked as the most dangerous city in America. There were 66 homicides per 100,000 residents.
For more than 30 years, Waccamaw Pottery anchored a vast shopping complex off U.S. Highway 501 in Myrtle Beach, eventually growing to one of the largest in America
Carondelet Park, established in 1875, is the third largest park in the city of St. Louis, Missouri. The park contains nearly 180 acres (0.73 km 2) [1] and is located in the southeastern portion of the city, just west of Interstate 55, and is accessible at the Loughborough Avenue exit. Loughborough Avenue is the park's southern boundary; its ...
A jury found a St. Louis rapper not guilty of murder after the 19-year-old claimed he was acting in self-defense when he shot and killed the driver of the Jeep that was following him on his minibike.
Creve Coeur Lake Memorial Park (also called Creve Coeur County Park) is a 2,145-acre (8.68 km 2) St. Louis County park located in Maryland Heights, Missouri, United States. The park is the largest in the St. Louis County Parks system [ 1 ] and includes Creve Coeur Lake , an oxbow lake which is one of the largest natural lakes in Missouri.