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From French Community To Missouri Town

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Author : Bonnie Stepenoff
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 2006-09-01

From French Community To Missouri Town written by Bonnie Stepenoff and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-01 with History categories.

A small French settlement thrived for half a century on the west bank of the Mississippi River before the Louisiana Purchase made it part of the United States in 1803. But for the citizens of Ste. Genevieve, becoming Americans involved more than simply acknowledging a transfer of power. Bonnie Stepenoff has written an engaging history of Missouri’s oldest permanent settlement to explore what it meant to be Americanized in our country’s early years. Picking up where other studies of Ste. Genevieve leave off, she traces the dramatic changes wrought by the transfer of sovereignty to show the process of social and economic transformation on a young nation’s new frontier. Stepenoff tells how French and Spanish residents—later joined by German immigrants and American settlers—made necessary compromises to achieve order and community, forging a democracy that represented different approaches to such matters as education, religion, property laws, and women’s rights. By examining the town’s historical circumstances, its legal institutions, and especially its popular customs, she shows how Ste. Genevieve differed from other towns along the Mississippi. Stepenoff has plumbed the town’s voluminous archives to share previously untold stories of Ste. Genevieve citizens that reflect how Americanization affected their lives. In these pages we meet a free woman of color who sued a prominent white family for support of her children; a slave who obtained her own freedom and then purchased her daughters’ freedom; a local sheriff who joined Aaron Burr’s conspiracy; and a doctor who treated cholera victims and later became a U.S. senator. More than colorful characters, these are real people shown pursuing justice and liberty under a new flag. The story of Ste. Genevieve serves as a testament to Tocqueville’s observations on American democracy while also challenging some of the commonly held beliefs about that institution. From French Community to Missouri Town provides a better understanding not only of how democracy works but also of what it meant to become American when America was still young.

Ste Genevieve

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Author : Richard Deposki
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2008

Ste Genevieve written by Richard Deposki and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.

In the late 1600s and early 1700s, the French established forts, such as Fort de Chartres, in the midaMississippi Valley, as well as villages, such as River des Peres and Mine la Motte. Ste. Genevieve was founded in the late 1740s when French Canadians settled on the rich soil of the floodplain. They built homes, cultivated crops (including corn and cotton), and mined the rich veins of lead and the bluffs for stone. The great flood of 1785, referred to by early residents as laannA(c)e des grandes eaux, swept away the tiny village, and the mighty Mississippi River reclaimed its riverbed, forcing residents to move their village several miles farther west to higher ground. Today much of the early French culture remains in the numerous 18th- and 19th-century Creole houses that line the ancient streets. Germans began to arrive in the early 1800s and left their mark using the abundant clay and limestone for brick buildings and limestone houses. Ste. Genevieve is dotted with landmarks: the famous Bolduc House, the apost-in-the-grounda Amoureux House, the Felix VallA(c) House, and many other historic and architectural treasures.

Historical Highlights Of Ste Genevieve 1735 1963

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Author : Women's Club of Ste. Genevieve (Mo.).
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963

Historical Highlights Of Ste Genevieve 1735 1963 written by Women's Club of Ste. Genevieve (Mo.). and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with Sainte Genevieve (Mo.) categories.

The Story Of Old Ste Genevieve

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Author : Gregory M. Franzwa
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990

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Woman S Club Of Sainte Genevieve Missouri Presents Historical Highlights Of Sainte Genevieve 1735 1955

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Author : Woman's Club of Ste. Genevieve (Sainte Genevieve, Mo.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1955*

Woman S Club Of Sainte Genevieve Missouri Presents Historical Highlights Of Sainte Genevieve 1735 1955 written by Woman's Club of Ste. Genevieve (Sainte Genevieve, Mo.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1955* with French categories.

Ste Genevieve County Family Histories

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Author : Ste. Genevieve Historical/Genealogical Society (Missouri)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988*

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Historical Highlights Of Ste Genevieve 1735 1961

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Author : Sainte Genevieve (Mo.). Woman's Club
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961*

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Ste Genevieve

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1850

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A Guide To Ste Genevieve

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Author : United States National Park Service
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-10-22

A Guide To Ste Genevieve written by United States National Park Service and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-22 with Architecture categories.

Excerpt from A Guide to Ste. Genevieve: With Notes on Its Architecture In an investigation of the old Creole village of St. Louis, which once outlined the site of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, the architectural research staff of the National Park Service has made an extensive search in the source materials which remain. While docu mentary evidence is rich (there are 250} documents in the St. Louis Recorded Archives, many of which contain architectural information), it has been necessary to recreate a dead vocabulary to understand it. This process involved a correlating study of Eighteenth Century docu ments and existing buildings. The last of the French buildings of St. Louis disappeared two generations ago. Only in Ste. Genevieve can the comparison be made todev. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Pioneers Of Old Ste Genevieve

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Author : Lucille Basler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983

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