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Florissant (/ ˈ f l ɒr ɪ s ən t / ⓘ) is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, within Greater St. Louis. It is a middle-class, second-ring northern suburb of St. Louis . Based on the 2020 United States census , the city had a total population of 52,533. [ 4 ]
Old St. Ferdinand Shrine and Historic Site is located at no. 1 rue St. Francois, Florissant, Missouri, and is owned, preserved, maintained, and protected by the non-profit organization, Friends of Old St. Ferdinand, Inc. The Shrine and Historic Site consists of four historic buildings on their original locations: the 1819 convent, 1821 church ...
Jefferson City, Missouri. "Missouri Revised Statutes – Chapter 72: Classification and Consolidation of Cities, Towns and Villages". Missouri General Assembly. August 28, 2011. "Missouri Revised Statutes – Chapter 77: Third Class Cities". Missouri General Assembly. August 28, 2011. "Missouri Revised Statutes – Chapter 79: Fourth Class Cities".
Only a handful of other municipal incorporations took place prior to the separation of the county and city: St. Ferdinand was granted incorporation in 1829 (and reincorporated as Florissant in 1843), while Bridgeton, a settlement along the Missouri River near Florissant, gained incorporation in 1843. [7]
Florissant Township is a township in St. Louis County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. Its population was 34,637 as of the 2010 census. References This page ...
It was purchased by the city of Florissant with a $20,000 grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development which was matched by Historic Florissant Inc. [5] As a result of this agreement, in 1981 after the restoration was complete Historic Florissant refunded the grant to the federal government and gained ownership of the house, which ...
John M. Vogt High School is located at 200 Church Avenue in Ferguson, Missouri and named for a merchant and former school board member. The school opened in 1930. It was built on the grounds of an open-air theater; property which was donated to the Ferguson Public School District by the Community Hall Association.
The city's combined statistical area is the 20th-largest in the United States. [12] The land that became St. Louis had been occupied by Native American cultures for thousands of years before European settlement. The city was founded on February 14, 1764, by French fur traders Gilbert Antoine de St. Maxent, Pierre Laclède, and Auguste Chouteau ...