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Located on the south bank of the Missouri River, in present-day Missouri, Fort Belle Fontaine was first a Spanish military post. [2] After the Louisiana Purchase , and after the U.S. government's William H. Harrison and representatives of the Native American Sac and Fox tribes signed a treaty on November 3, 1804, the fort in 1805 became a fur ...
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.
Bellefontaine Neighbors (/ b ɛ l ˈ f aʊ n t ən / bel-FOWN-tən) is an inner-ring suburban city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States. The population was 10,740 at the 2020 census . [ 5 ]
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Gen. Daniel Bissell House (also known as Franklinville Farm or Bissell Manor) is a historic house at 10225 Bellefontaine Road in Bellefontaine Neighbors, Missouri that was the home of Revolutionary War General Daniel Bissell (general). The Federal style house was built in 1819 and added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 28 ...
Bellefontaine Cemetery is a nonprofit, non-denominational cemetery and arboretum in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1849 as a rural cemetery , Bellefontaine has several architecturally significant monuments and mausoleums such as the Louis Sullivan -designed Wainwright Tomb , which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places .
The property contains the main house, a shed, a barn, and a brick outhouse. [2] The main house was built in an early Italianate architecture style and has two stories. [2] It was an example of the transition from traditional architecture of mid-19th century building, to the newer Italianate style that emerging in the area and as of 1988, it had maintained many of its original architectural ...
John Berry Meachum (May 3, 1789 – February 26, 1854) was an American pastor, businessman, educator and founder of the First African Baptist Church in St. Louis, the oldest black church west of the Mississippi River.