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Fairground Park is a municipal park that opened in 1908 in St. Louis, Missouri. It was originally a privately owned facility, first used by the St. Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Association for the St. Louis Exposition from 1856 through 1902.
The Fairground Park riot was a race riot that broke out on June 21, 1949, at a newly integrated public swimming pool. [1] The Fairground Park pool was located near Natural Bridge and Vandeventer Avenues in north St. Louis .
Benton Barracks (or Camp Benton) was a Union Army military encampment, established during the American Civil War, in St. Louis, Missouri, at the present site of the St. Louis Fairground Park. Before the Civil War, the site was owned and used by the St. Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Association , which at the time was located on the ...
Fairground is a neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. The neighborhood's boundaries are defined as Glasgow Avenue on the east, west and North Florissant Avenues on the north, Warne on the west, and Fairground Park and Natural Bridge Avenue on the south.
The proposed Green Line and existing rail lines in St. Louis. The 5.8-mile (9.3 km) route would begin at the intersection of Natural Bridge Avenue and Grand Boulevard with a station at Fairground Park. It then continues east along Natural Bridge and then south on Parnell Street with a station at St. Louis Avenue.
This event became known as the Fairground Park riot: an event of such violence that the city of St. Louis resorted to segregation to maintain the peace. The NAACP fought the decision to re-segregate the pool and filed a lawsuit that eventually ended segregation at Fairgrounds pool park the very next summer. That summer, the number of swimmers ...
Since the 1850s, St. Louis had hosted annual agricultural and mechanical fairs at Fairground Park to connect with regional manufacturers and growers. [78] However, by the 1880s, the connection to agriculture had declined, and in 1883, a new exposition hall was built at Thirteenth and Olive streets to house industrial exhibits. [ 78 ]
Among the largest municipal parks is Forest Park, which is 1,293 acres (5.2 km 2) and is located in the city of St. Louis, although both Greensfelder County Park and Creve Coeur Park in St. Louis County are larger, at 1,646 and 2,114 acres (6.7 and 8.6 km 2) respectively. St.