HISTORY RESOURCES FOR SAINT LOUIS MISSOURI
Perhaps the most comprehensive collection on local history, many photos storires, and related links.
A well detailed written history of the City proper from its founding to 1969
The Old Post Office and Customs House-located on OLIVE
Construction on the OPO began in 1872 and it was completed in 1884 at a cost exceeding $6 million. The windows are equipped with iron shutters for fire prevention. One of the stories surrounding the construction of the OPO is that it was built on quicksand. In 1873, while the workers were digging the foundation, they struck a large rolling bed of quicksand. Several hundred men worked to stem the flow of the quicksand and only succeeded after driving pine support beams deep into the bedrock, then packing 500 bales of cotton around the beams, and covering it with four feet of limestone concrete slabs.
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SEARS HOMES IN THE ST. LOUIS AREA - KETC-TV
HISTORIC DISTRICTS OF SAINT LOUIS, VIDEO TOUR