Historic Tales of St. Louis

Name: Historic Tales of St. Louis
Brand: The History Press
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Mark Zeman(Autor*in)

The History Press

Erschienen am 23. Januar 2023

233 Seiten

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Intro
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Army Secretly Sprays St. Louis in Chemical Weapons Program
Automobiles and Roads
The Battle of Camp Jackson: Suppressing a Confederate Seizure of the Union Arsenal
The Birth of the Suburb: Village to Metropolis
Bloody Island: Submarine Telegraph Cables and a Presidential Duel
Brewers and Their Caves
The British Crown Jewels and the First Police Department to Use Fingerprints
The Brown Shoe Company
Cary Grant Starts a Trend: Chocolates on a Hotel Pillow
Chinatown: Hop Alley and a President's Grandfather
Choking on Progress: The Worst Air Pollution in the Nation
Cholera Outbreak of 1849 Kills 10 Percent of Population
Civil War Contraband Hospitals and Black Healthcare
Civil War Ironclads of James Eads
Coffee Was King
Congressman Beaten on Senate Floor and the First Black High School West of the Mississippi
Daniel Boone's Real Home
Denying the Vote
Double-Wide Alley: Remnant of a Clay Mine Railway
The Dred and Harriet Scott Case: The Old Courthouse
Education in St. Louis
Electric Park at Creve Coeur Park
The Elephant That Walked across the Eads Bridge
Eliza Hoole Is Not Buried Here
The Exorcist House
Fairground Park and the 1949 Swimming Pool Race Riot
The Farmers Market Older than the U.S. Constitution
First Black Church in St. Louis
First Cocktail Party in the World and the Largest Collection of Mosaics
First Drive-Up Window
First Olympics in the USA
Forest Park's Aviation Field and Lindbergh's Airmail Route
Forest Park Highlands and the St. Louis Carousel
From Balloon Age to Space Age
From Horses to Streetcars
Fur, Hides and the Extermination of the Buffalo
The Garment District: Washington Avenue Second Only to New York
Gaslight Square: See Barbra Streisand for Two Bucks
German Spy Uses Germ Warfare to Kill Mules during World War I
The Girl in the Shadow Box: A Tale of Unrequited Love
The Great Cyclone of 1896
The Great Fire of 1849
The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery: So You Want to Be in Pictures
Home and Castle
Hooverville: Slums on the Arch Grounds
How Piggly Wiggly Shaped Shopping
Josephine Baker: The Opera House Built over Her Childhood Slum
Lavish Dinner Party inside the Mill Creek Sewer
Masterpiece Hidden in U-Haul's Ceiling
Miracle Authenticated by the Vatican
The Mississippi: Giving Birth to Everything
Motordrome/Murderdrome at Priester's Park
Mounds of Native Americans
Nation's First Lynching: Francis McIntosh
Neither Snow nor Rain
New Madrid Fault and the Day the Mississippi River Ran Backward
1904 World's Fair and the Pygmy Displayed at the New York Bronx Zoo
1904 World's Fair Flight Cage: The Beginning of the St. Louis Zoo
1907 Balloon Race, Grandfather of the Great Forest Park Balloon Race
Nude Art That Ruffled Feathers
Old Newsboys Day: Dealing with Poverty
Pneumatic Mail Tube System
Prohibition Ends by Redefining Alcohol
Race Riots of East St. Louis, 1917
Reinterment of the Dead
The Revolutionary War Battle in St. Louis
Revolutionary War Sunken British Naval Artillery
Reynard the Fox
The Ruins at Tower Grove Park
Saving the Vineyards of France from Extinction
The Search for Planet Vulcan
Seeds from Space: A Tree Growing in the Botanical Garden
Social Evil Hospital: First U.S. City to Legalize Prostitution
Soldiers Memorial Statues and World War II Stolen Art Retrieval
Spanish Flu of 1918: German Spies, Aspirin and Phonograph Records
Spiritualism: The Big Con
St. Louis Eruv
Three of the Nation's Remaining Seven Standpipe Water Towers
Toasted Ravioli
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier: Identity Discovered
Trains, Union Station and the Whispering Arch
Twelfth-Century English Chapel Dismantled and Shipped Here
Underground Cold War Bunker: The St. Louis Civil Defense Control Center
U.S. Army Retaliatory Execution of POWs
The Way Out of Darkness: The First School to Teach Braille
Whiskey Milking Scandal
World's First Skyscraper: The Wainwright Building
World's Largest Ammo Plant and World War II
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About the Author

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