1760 - 1769 |
| -View of St. Louis, 1919 | |
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1541-Hernando DeSoto´s 1541 Mississippi River Crossing |
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1763-Laclede Chooses Site of St. Louis |
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1764-France Cedes Louisiana |
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1764-Auguste Chouteau arrives at the site of St. Louis |
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1764-Village is Named for St. Louis |
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1764-Marie Chouteau Arrives in St. Louis |
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1764-First Houses Built in St. Louis |
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1765-Arrival of St. Ange de Bellerive |
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1766-Spain Assumes Control of the Louisiana Territory |
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1766-Chouteau´s Pond is created |
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1767-Carondelet is founded |
| 1770 - 1779 |
| 1770-Spanish Arrive in St. Louis | |
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1772-First Resident Priest Arrives |
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1772-Trade Stopped with Native Americans |
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1775-Spanish Commandant Cruzat Arrives |
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1776-First Church is Completed |
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1778-Cruzat leaves St. Louis |
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1778-Laclede Dies |
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1778-Cerre moves to St. Louis |
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1779-De Leyba arrives |
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1779-Leyba Assists Clark Against the British |
| 1780 - 1789 |
| 1780-Fortifications Built Around St. Louis | |
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1780-De Leyba dies |
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1780-Americans start arriving on Mississipi´s east bank |
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1780-Gratiot Moves to St. Louis |
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1780-St. Louis is Attacked by the British |
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1781-Cruzat attacks the British |
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1784-Spain Closes the Lower Mississippi |
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1788-Mississippi River Opened to Americans |
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1788-Louisiana Territory Opened to Americans |
| 1790 - 1799 |
| 1793-First African American Receives Land Grant | |
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1795-Pinckney Treaty of 1795 |
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1795-Treaty of San Lorenzo Signed |
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1796-Carondelet is renamed |
| 1800 - 1809 |
| 1800-France Regains Possession of Louisiana Territory | |
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1803-Louisiana Purchase |
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1804-US Takes Possession of St. Louis |
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1804-Lewis and Clark Expedition |
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1804-Three Flags Day |
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1805-St. Louis Becomes Territorial Capital |
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1805-Exploration of Mississippi River |
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1806-Southwest Exploration Begins |
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1807-Lewis Appointed Territorial Governor |
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1808-First St. Louis Newspaper Published |
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1809-St. Louis Incorporated |
| 1810 - 1819 |
| 1810-Fire Companies Formed | |
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1811-Population in 1811 |
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1811-Stone House Built on "Chouteau´s Hill" |
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1811-Overseer of Roads Position Established |
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1811-First Police Force (Constabulary) Established |
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1811-New Madrid Earthquake |
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1812-Brick homes and stores appear |
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1812-Market House on Public Square Completed |
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1812-Declaration of War Reaches St. Louis |
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1812-Territorial Government Reorganized |
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1813-Committee for Public Safety formed |
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1813-William Clark Named Governor |
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1814-Thespian Society is Formed |
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1815-DuBourg Consecrated Bishop of Louisiana Purchase |
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1815-Treaty signed with 19 Native American Nations |
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1816-Population in 1816 |
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1816-First Subdivision Added to St. Louis |
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1817-First Steamboat Arrives in St. Louis |
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1817-Duel at ´Bloody Island´ |
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1818-Irish Emmigrant & Corresponding Society founded |
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1818-First Police Captain appointed |
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1818-St. Louis Academy Opens |
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1818-Baptists organize African-American Sunday School |
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1819-Brick cathedral erected |
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1819-Erin Benevolent Society Founded |
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1819-Panic of 1819 |
| 1820 - 1829 |
| -St. Louis Incorporated as a City | |
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1827-U.S. Arsenal Established in St. Louis |
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1828-First Catholic Hospital in the United States Opens |
| 1830 - 1839 |
| 1830-Race Relations in the 1830s | |
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1830-Building Boom of the 1830s |
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1830-Immigration in the 1830s |
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1831-First Waterworks Created |
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1832-St. Louis University Chartered |
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1835-Publication of the Observer |
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1837-Panic of 1837 |
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1837-Creation of the Bank of the State of Missouri |
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1839-City of St. Louis Marshal´s Office |
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1839-Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod founding |
| 1840 - 1849 |
| 1837-Re-routing the Mississippi River | |
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1840-St. Paul African Methodist Church Founded |
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1842-Anti-Immigration Riots |
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1843-Bus System Started |
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1843-First Public Transit System Established |
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1843-Waterworks Expanded |
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1843-Knights of Liberty founded |
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1844-Great Flood of 1844 |
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1846-Dred Scott Case |
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1846-Mercantile Library Association Founded |
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1846-St. Vincent de Paul Society Formed |
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1846-Immigration in the 1840s |
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1849-Great Fire of 1849 |
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1849-Cholera Epidemic |
| 1850 - 1859 |
| 1850-Cholera Quarantine Made Permanent | |
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1850-City Council creates fund for first sewers |
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1850-First Turnverein is Organized |
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1851-Jenny Lind Comes to St. Louis |
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1851-Iron Mountain Railroad is Organized |
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1851-Lafayette Park Dedicated |
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1851-Lucas Place is City´s First Private Place |
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1852-Mo Supreme Court Reverses Dred Scott Decision |
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1852-First Railroads Established |
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1854-View of St. Louis, 1854 |
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1854-Grand Avenue laid out by Hiram Leffingwell |
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1854-Washington University Founded |
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1855-Gasconade Bridge Collapses |
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1855-First Public High School in Missouri |
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1855-Agricultural and Mechanical Fair established |
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1859-First Streetcar Run is Completed |
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1859-Construction of Christ Church Cathedral Begins |
| 1860 - 1869 |
| -Daily Press Newspaper began | |
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1860-1st Ever Baseball game in St. Louis |
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1860-Frist Baseball Game in St. Louis |
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1860-Anheuser buys brewery |
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1860-Jackson Elected Governor |
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1861-Last Slave Auction in St. Louis |
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1861-Police Board Created |
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1861-Secession Convention Meets |
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1861-Camp Jackson established |
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1861-Camp Jackson surrendered |
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1861-Fremont Named Commander of Western Department |
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1861-Martial Law Declared in St. Louis |
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1861-Western Sanitary Commission Established |
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1861-Halleck Named Commander of Department of the West |
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1861-Eads Builds Ironclad Riverboats |
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1861-Civil War |
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1861-Minute Men Organized |
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1862-Old Courthouse Finished |
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1862-Outstate Missouri Refugees Arrive in St. Louis |
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1862-Southern Sympathizers Fined |
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1863-New Waterworks Authorized |
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1864-Lemp Brewery Moves |
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1865-Missouri Constitutional Convention Held |
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1865-Slavery Abolished in Missouri |
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1865-St. Louis Public Library Founded |
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1866-Missouri Historical Society Founded |
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1866-1866 Cholera epidemic hits |
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1867-Bissell Point Plant Built |
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1867-Eads Bridge Is Constructed |
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1867-Mullanphy Emigrant Home Built |
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1867-Woman Suffrage Association of Missouri Formed |
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1868-Masonic Building Completed |
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1868-J.O. Pierce home built |
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1868-Lyon Park Donated to City |
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1868-Shaw Donates Tower Grove Park |
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1869-Big Mound completely demolished |
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1869-Fence Built around Lafayette Park |
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1869-St. Louis Sanitarium Opens |
| 1870 - 1879 |
| 1870-Vandeventer Place Designed | |
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1870-1870 Extension of City Boundaries |
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1870-Municipal Courts Building Constructed |
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1870-Carondelet annexed to St. Louis |
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1872-Sisters of St. Mary Established |
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1872-Temporary City Hall Constructed |
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1873-Panic of 1873 |
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1874-Post Office and Customs House Construction Begins |
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1874-All Saints Episcopal Church founded |
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1874-View of St. Louis, 1874 |
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1875-Pictorial St. Louis Published |
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1875-Globe-Democrat Formed |
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1875-Sumner High School Opens |
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1876-Final 1876 Extension of City Boundaries |
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1876-Budweiser Beer developed |
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1876-St. Louis Brownstockings Join the National League |
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1876-Great Divorce of 1876 |
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1876-Separation of St. Louis City from County |
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1876-Democratic National Convention of 1876 |
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1876-Forest Park Established |
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1876-1876 Home Rule Charter |
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1877-St. Louis Real Estate Exchange Chartered |
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1877-Southern Hotel Fire |
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1877-General Strike of 1877 |
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1878-Mystic Order of the Veiled Prophet Formed |
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1878-Veiled Prophet Celebration begins |
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1879-St. Louis Post-Dispatch is Founded |
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1879-Busch becomes partner in brewery |
| 1880 - 1889 |
| 1880-1880 Census | |
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1884-Exposition and Music Hall Constructed |
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1885-Cable Street Railways Introduced |
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1886-St. Louis Ethical Society Founded |
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1887-St. Louis Labor and Trades Assembly Union Formed |
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1888-Republican National Convention of 1888 |
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1888-Annie Malone Childrens Home founded |
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1888-St. Louis University Opens New Campus |
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1889-Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis Formed |
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1889-Henry Shaw dies |
| 1890 - 1899 |
| -United Railways Company Started | |
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1890-Wednesday Club Formed |
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1890-Normal School Opens at Sumner High School |
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1890-William Harris publishes Publishes "Hegel´s Logic" |
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1890-Lewis Place Laid Out |
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1890-St. Louis Population Reaches 451,770 |
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1890-City electrified |
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1891-Wainwright Building Completed |
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1892-Cupples Station construction |
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1892-Theodore Dreiser Arrives in St. Louis |
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1893-Economic Panic of 1893 |
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1893-William Marion Reedy Named Publisher at the St. |
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1893-First Women Appointed in City Government |
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1894-Ralston Purina is Founded |
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1894-Union Station Completed |
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1895-Eugene Field Dies in Chicago. |
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1895-First Pressed Brick Streets and Alleys Laid |
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1895-Sumner High School Relocates |
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1896-Kate Field Dies |
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1896-Republican National Convention of 1896 |
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1896-View of St. Louis, 1896 |
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1896-New City Hall Opens |
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1896-Tornado of 1896 |
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1898-Automobiles appear on the streets of St. Louis |
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1899-Frankie kills "Johnny" |
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1899-St. Louis Selected as Site for 1904 World´s Fair |
| 1900 - 1909 |
| 1900-Transit Workers Strike | |
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1900-Rolla Wells is Elected Mayor |
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1900-Poro College Founded |
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1900-St. Louis Baseball Team is Named the Cardinals |
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1901-Civic Improvement League established |
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1901-New Water Treatment System is Installed |
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1902-Kingshighway Commission chartered |
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1902-St. Louis Browns Join the American League |
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1902-American Tent & Awning Co. Fire |
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1904-1904 World´s Fair |
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1904-Louisiana Purchase Exposition |
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1904-Public Buildings Commission Chartered |
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1904-Association of Colored Womens Clubs Organized |
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1907-View of St. Louis, 1907 |
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1907-St. Louis Womens Trade Union League Founded |
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1909-First Airplane Flight in St. Louis |
| 1910 - 1919 |
| -American Legion formed | |
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1910-St. Louis Equal Suffrage League Founded |
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1910-St. Louis Zoological Society is Formed |
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1912-Railway Exchange is Built |
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1912-City Plan Commission Established |
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1912-St. Louis Argus Founded |
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1912-Worlds First Parachute Jump |
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1913-St. Louis Zoo Created |
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1913-Federal Reserve Bank District Established |
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1914-St. Louis NAACP Formed |
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1914-Pageant & Masque is Held |
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1916-Segregation Initiative is Passed |
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1917-St. Louis Urban League Established |
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1917-Aluminum Ore Race Riot |
| 1920 - 1929 |
| -1920-30 Suburban Expansion as the Automobile Beca | |
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-Oct 1929 - Stock Market Crash |
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-Dec. 25, 1927 - "Black Christmas" |
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-Population, 1920-1929 |
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1910-First African-American Elected Official |
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1920-St. Louis Cardinals Become Tenants of Browns |
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1920-People´s Motor Bus Company Established |
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1920-Prohibition Breeds Crime in St. Louis |
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1920-League of Women Voters of St. Louis Founded |
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1921-First Radio Station in Missouri Built |
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1922-Lemp Brewery Sells at Auction |
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1923-Air Pollution and smoke regulation |
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1923-Bond Issue of 1923 |
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1924-International Air Races at St. Louis |
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1924-Webster University Founded |
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1925-KMOX Radio Station Goes On the Air |
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1925-St. Louis Club Building Fire |
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1925-Dinky Trolley Line Goes Bankrupt |
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1926-Voters Defeat 1926 Proposed Expansion |
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1926-Tower Grove Park Expands |
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1926-St. Louis Cardinals Win 1926 World Series |
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1927-Charles Lindbergh Makes Solo Trans-Atlantic Flight |
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1927-Tornado of 1927 |
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1928-Waterworks at Howard´s Bend |
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1928-St. Louis Cardinals Win 1928 National League Penna |
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1928-St. Louis American is Founded |
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1929-Depression and the Stock Market Crash |
| 1930 - 1939 |
| 1930-1930 Census is taken | |
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1930-St. Louis Cardinals Win 1930 National League Penna |
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1930-Lambert-St. Louis Municipal Airport Dedicated |
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1930-Ted Drewes´ Frozen Custard Opens |
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1930-St. Louis Cardinals´ Gas House Gang |
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1931-Homer G. Phillips Murdered |
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1932-1932 Bond Issue |
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1933-Unemployment Rate Peaks During Great Depression |
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1933-Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Association |
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1934-WPA Provides Work Relief |
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1934-Civic Improvements Program |
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1934-St. Louis Cardinals Win 1934 World Series |
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1935-1935 Bond Issue |
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1935-First Labor Union Vistory by Gas Workers´ Union |
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1939-Black Tuesday |
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1939-Municipal Opera Established |
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1939-McDonnell Aircraft Corporation Founded |
| 1940 - 1949 |
| 1940-1940 Census | |
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1940-Admiral riverboat completed |
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1940-Smoke-Abatement Law Enacted |
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1940-1940 All -Star Game hosted in St. Louis |
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1941-World War II Affects Local Manufacturing |
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1942-MacArthur Bridge Named |
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1942-St. Louis Cardinals Win 1942 World Series |
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1943-Women´s Auxiliary Army Corps Formed |
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1943-Urban Developments Corporation Law |
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1944-Meet Me in St. Louis Premieres |
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1944-Streetcar Series |
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1944-St. Louis Cardinals Win 1944 World Series |
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1946-St. Louis Cardinals Win 1946 World Series |
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1947-1947 Comprehensive City Plan |
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1949-St. Louis CORE Established |
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1949-Waterfront Redevelopment Projects |
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1949-Bi-State Development Agency Created |
| 1950 - 1959 |
| 1890-Population reaches 682,000 | |
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1952-LCRA is Established |
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1953-Farris Appointed LCRA Director |
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1953-St. Louis Cardinals Are Sold to Busch |
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1954-Harris and Stowe Colleges merged |
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1954-St. Louis Sewer District Created |
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1955-LCRA and Housing Authority Combined |
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1956-Lafayette Area Declared Blighted |
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1958-Peabody Coal Company Building Completed |
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1958-Mill Creek Valley Renewal |
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1958-New Sports Stadium Proposed |
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1958-Redevelopment Recommended for Kosciusko |
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1959-Thomas Jefferson Building Completed |
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1959-Murphy Area Declared Blighted |
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1959-Kosciusko Project Underway |
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1959-Hot-Air Balloon Record |
| 1960 - 1969 |
| 1954-Plaza Square Renewal | |
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1960-Mayor's MBDC Founded |
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1960-City Population: 750,026 |
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1960-Missouri Employment Security Building Completed |
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1961-Federal Building at 15th and Market Completed |
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1961-DeSoto-Carr / Murphy Areas Funds Sought |
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1961-Mark Twain Expressway opened |
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1961-Developer Selected for Stadium |
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1962-Junior College District Created |
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1962-Bond Issue for City share of Stadium Cost |
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1962-1962 Borough Plan defeated |
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1962-Parkside Plaza Completed |
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1962-Famous Barr Garage Completed |
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1963-Bi-State Purchases Public Service Transit Co. |
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1963-St. Louis RIDC Established |
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1963-Mo General Assembly Municipal Planning Act Passed |
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1963-Executive Building Completed |
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1963-First National Bank Addition |
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1963-Grandel and West End Project Progress |
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1963-University of Missouri-St. Louis Opens |
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1964-St. Louis Cardinals Win 1964 World Series |
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1964-Regional Industrial Development Council Founded |
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1964-Kiener Plaza East Garage Completed |
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1964-Huck Finn Excursion Boat |
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1964-Teachers Select Mill Creek Site |
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1964-Grant Sought for West End Rehab Project |
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1964-St. Louis Univ. Redevelopment Plan for Mill Creek |
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1964-Bicentennial of the City's Founding |
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1965-St. Louis Centre North Garage Completed |
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1965-Days Inn at the Arch Completed |
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1965-Jefferson National Expansion Memorial |
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1965-Southwestern Bell Building Completed |
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1965-Mayor´s Beautification Commission Founded |
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1965-East-West Gateway Coordinating Council founded |
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1965-West End Rehab Begins |
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1965-Montgomery, Murphy-Blair, DeSoto-Carr Renewal |
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1965-Warwick Addition |
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1965-Clarion Hotel-St. Louis |
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1965-ACTION established |
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1966-East-West Gateway Coordinating Council Established |
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1966-Farm Credit Banks Building Constructed |
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1966-Sports Stadium Approved/Built |
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1966-C. L. Farris Resigns |
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1966-Busch Memorial Stadium dedicated |
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1966-Busch Stadium Completed |
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1966-Stadium East and Stadium West Garages Completed |
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1966-Mansion House Center Completed |
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1966-Last Streetcar Line Disappears |
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1966-Kiener Memorial Plaza Completed |
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1966-Ethyl Petroleum Building Completed |
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1966-Best Western St. Louisian |
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1966-Former General American Agencies Building Built |
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1967-Chapter 100 enacted by Mo legislature |
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1967-Edison Brothers Store Addition |
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1967-Kiener Plaza West Garage Completed |
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1967-Union Market Leased to Merchant Tenants |
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1967-St. Louis Cardinals Win 1967 World Series |
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1968-St. Louis Cardinals Win 1968 National League Penna |
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1968-St. Louis Sentinel Founded |
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1968-Gateway Arch Officially Dedicated |
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1968-Becky Thatcher Excursion Boat Completed |
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1968-Gateway Tower Building Completed |
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1968-Model City Agency Established |
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1969-Downtown Mall Area Blighted |
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1969-Pet Inc. International Headquarters |
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1969-LaSalle Park Plan Approved |
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1969-NDP Funding for DeSoto-Carr and Other Projects |
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1969-LCRA and Housing Authority Separated |
| 1970 - 1979 |
| 1970-Lt. Robert E. Lee Restaurant Boat Completed | |
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1970-Mark Twain St. Louis Bank Completed |
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1970-Laclede Gas Building Completed |
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1970-Federal Building Completed |
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1970-Ralston Purina Tower Completed |
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1970-Relocation Agency Established |
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1970-St. Patricks Day Parade Started |
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1971-Zoo-Museum District Created |
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1971-Operation Breakthrough Targets Mill Creek Valley |
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1971-Equitable Building Completed |
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1971-500 Broadway Building Completed |
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1971-Land Reutilization Authority (LRA) Established. |
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1972-LaSalle Park Funding Approval |
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1972-Ralston Purina Named Developer of LaSalle Park |
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1973-Kiel Auditorium Garage Completed |
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1973-Construction Begins in LaSalle Park Redevelopment |
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1973-RCGA Formed |
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1974-Eads Bridge Railroad Tracks Closed |
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1974-Cervantes Convention Center Built |
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1974-Community Development Agency (CDA) Created |
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1974-St. Louis Port Authority Created |
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1974-Ruth C. Porter Mall Completed |
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1974-Post Office Annex Completed |
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1974-Ground Broken for Convention Center with LCRA Aid |
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1975-Mercantile Tower Completed |
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1975-CDA opens for business at the 1015 Locust Building |
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1975-John Roach Appointed CDA Executive Director |
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1975-Holiday Inn Riverfront Conversion Completed |
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1975-Convention Center Interchange Completed |
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1975-CDA Funding Initiated |
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1975-Pruitt-Igoe Housing Complex Imploded |
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1976-Local Development Company (LDC) Created |
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1976-Boatmen´s Tower-Completed |
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1976-Marriott´s Pavilion Hotel´s First Tower Completed |
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1976-Breckenridge Hotel Replaces Spanish Pavilion |
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1977-Don Spaid appointed CDA Executive Director |
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1977-Local Public Works Program Undertaken in 1977 |
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1977-Alley Lighting Completed |
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1977-Sheraton St. Louis Hotel Completed |
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1977-Lennox Hotel Renovation and Conversion |
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1977-General American Life Insurance Building Completed |
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1977-Jefferson Arms |
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1977-Greyhound Bus Terminal Renovated |
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1977-Continental Trailways Terminal Addition Completed |
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1978-Union Electric Co. Addition |
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1979-MEDAC created |
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1979-Industrial Development Authority (IDA) Created |
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1979-CDA Economic Development staff move to PIEA |
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1979-Heritage and Urban Design Commission created |
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1979-801 N. 11th Street Building Completed |
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1979-YMCA Contemporary Tower Converted |
| 1980 - 1989 |
| 1980-Koken Building Completed | |
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1981-United Exposition Service Completed |
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1981-Columbus Squares Apartments Completed |
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1981-Holiday Inn Downtown Completed |
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1981-O´Fallon Place Completed |
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1981-Cochran Plaza Completed |
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1981-Schoemehl Appoints Exec Director of Development |
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1981-Business Assistance Center (BAC) Created |
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1981-Frank Hamsher is Director of CDA |
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1981-Major Layoffs Occur at CDA |
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1982-Boatmen´s Plaza Completed |
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1982-1010 Market Street Office Tower is Completed |
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1982-Chouteau Center is completed |
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1982-910 N. 11th St. Building-Completed |
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1982-A second round of layoffs occur at CDA |
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1982-Desegregation Program begins for St. Louis Public |
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1982-St. Louis Cardinals Win 1982 World Series |
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1983-Office of Business Development (OED) is Created |
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1983-St. Louis Place Completed |
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1984-U.S. Sprint Building Completed |
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1984-Ryder Truck Building Completed |
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1984-901 N. 10th St. Building Completed |
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1985-Edison Brothers Stores and Parking Garage |
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1985-Lucas Park Loft Apartments Completed |
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1985-One Bell Center Completed |
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1985-Mercantile Bank Facility Completed |
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1985-Embassy Suites Hotel Completed |
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1985-Thrifty Inn Completed |
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1985-Hyatt Regency St. Louis Completed |
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1985-Deborah Patterson Named Development Director |
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1985-Tom Nash Appointed Head of OBD |
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1985-Union Station Reopens |
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1985-St. Louis Cardinals Win 1985 National League Penna |
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1986-St. Louis Centre Opens |
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1986-A.E. Lottes Building Completed |
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1986-One City Centre Completed |
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1986-Gateway One on the Mall Completed |
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1986-Adam´s Mark Hotel Completed |
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1987-Port Authority is Folded into OBD |
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1987-MagneTek Century Electric Building Completed |
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1987-MCI Building Completed |
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1987-Brinks Building Completed |
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1987-Football Cardinals Leave St. Louis |
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1987-St. Louis Cardinals win 1987 National League Pennant |
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1988-Economic Development Commission Created |
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1988-Operation Conserv Established in Building Division |
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1988-Drury Inn Union Station Completed |
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1988-Mercantile Bank Operations Center Completed |
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1988-Power House Completed |
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1988-Forsythe Plaza at Union Station Reconstructed |
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1989-J. Christopher Grace - Exec Director of Development |
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1989-Anthony Williams appointed as Director of CDA |
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1989-Metropolitan Square and Parking Lot Completed |
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1989-Union Electric Corporate Headquarters |
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1989-A.G. Edwards North Tower-Completed |
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1998-Dennis Coleman - Exec Director of Development |
| 1990 - 1999 |
| 1981-Fair St. Louis | |
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1990-Sherwood Medical Building Completed |
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1990-Daniel and Henry Building Completed |
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1990-Drury Inn Convention Center Completed |
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1990-EDC renamed St. Louis Development Corporation |
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1990-CDA, SLDC, HUDC, Op. Impact @ 330 N. 15th St. |
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1990-Courtyard by Marriott |
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1991-Southwestern Bell Information Systems Center |
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1993-Metrolink Opens |
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1993-Flood of 1993 |
| 2000 - 2009 |
| 2000-Rams Win Superbowl XXXIV | |