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History. The impetus for a college campus in its current location began in 1957 when members of the Bellerive Country Club put their 53-year-old club house and 125-acre (50.6 ha) grounds on the market for $1.3 million as they planned to move to larger quarters in Town and Country, Missouri.
Greater St. Louis Area Council (#312) The Greater St. Louis Area Council (GSLAC) of the Boy Scouts of America was formed in 1911 and is based in St. Louis, Missouri. The council serves Scouts in the St. Louis Metro area, southeast Missouri, and southern and central Illinois .
The East St. Louis massacre was a series of violent attacks on African Americans by white Americans in East St. Louis, Illinois, between late May and early July of 1917. These attacks also displaced 6,000 African Americans and led to the destruction of approximately $400,000 ($9.51 million in 2023) worth of property. [1]
Phoebe Couzins: [1] [2] First female law graduate from the University of Washington School of Law in St. Louis, Missouri (1871) Dorothy L. Freeman (1942): [7] First African American female lawyer in St. Louis, Missouri. Mabel Wood Hinckley: [15] First female judge in St. Louis, Missouri. Esther M. Golly (1931): [53] First female admitted to the ...
Antonio Martin is shot to death by police in a St. Louis suburb nearby to Ferguson; 2015 – 2015 Baltimore protests, April 25–28 following the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody. 2015 – St. Louis, Missouri, August 19. Conflict with police following fatal shooting by St. Louis police officers of a black teenager Mansur Ball-Bey
Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri. Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri serves more than 43,000 girls and has over 15,000 adult volunteers. It was formed by merging Girl Scouts of The Becky Thatcher Area and The Girl Scout Council of Greater Saint Louis in 2007. Headquarters: St. Louis, Missouri.
Visitation Academy of St. Louis (Viz) / 38.63667°N 90.44139°W / 38.63667; -90.44139. Visitation Academy of St. Louis is a private, all-girls, Roman Catholic school in Town and Country, Missouri [3] ( St. Louis postal address), in the Archdiocese of Saint Louis. It is a work of the Visitation Sisters who founded it in 1833.
The St. Louis Board of Aldermen is the lawmaking body of St. Louis, an independent city in the U.S. state of Missouri. The Board consists of 14 alderpersons, one elected by each of the city's 14 wards. The President of the Board is a separate position elected by all city voters with the same voting power as an alderperson, and serves as the ...