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A Brief History of Grand-Bates

From Rural to Urban In 1890, visitors to Grand-Bates would have found little more than rolling Missouri prairie, dirt paths, and the occasional countryside home. The future neighborhood’s open land sat just outside the small riverside community of Carondelet (the history of which stretches back to the 1760s), next to St. Louis’s newest park. Carondelet Park – just 14 years old – already featured a lagoon and paved roads, but the area was still too distant without access to the city transit system. That all changed when the electric streetcar arrived in 1899. continue reading...

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