Bridgeton, Missouri history

After 1804, more New Englanders and other East Coast emigrants settled in St Louis, but the population remained predominantly French until well into the 19th-Century.

In 1807, he and several families formed a Baptist church on the banks of Fee Fee’s creek.

St Louis incorporated as a city in 1823.

The old church building located on the Cemetery grounds was built in 1829 and was the second building for the congregation.

In 1830, the log building was replaced by a brick building located on the road from St Louis to St Charles.

Another township name, "Bonfils", was a Post Office (1894-1914) and a station on the Wabash Railroad and Bonfils Drive off of Natural Bridge Road still bears that name. It holds the distinction of having the oldest continuous state charter which was granted in 1843, the year it was incorporated.

The 1874 construction of the Eads Bridge made St Louis an important link in the continuing growth of transcontinental rail travel--but came too late to prevent Chicago from overtaking it as the largest rail hub in the nation.

St Louis's current boundaries were established in 1876, when voters approved separation from St Louis County and establishment of a home rule charter.

After the Civil War, St Louis continued its rapid growth, and by 1900 was a major manufacturing center.

One of the City's great moments came in 1904, when it hosted a World's Fair: the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, in Forest Park and the city's western edge.

Meanwhile, the last streetcar line in St Louis, the Hodiamont, stopped operating in 1966.

Neighborhood Histories Neighborhood Histories by Norbury L. Wayman published in 1978

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Zach Crook was called in January 2019 and is the current Senior Pastor of Fee Fee Baptist Church.