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Dr. Edmund E. Babler Memorial State Park

Posted on May 19, 2020 by Chris Naffziger

Sculptor Charles Keck produced this handsome monument of Dr. Edmund Babler out in the state park that bears his name. I could have sworn I already photographed this park at some point, but I guess I was wrong. Babler is… Continue Reading →

County Historic Buildings, Monuments, Parks, Sculpture, West County, Wildwood
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Old State Road

Posted on February 27, 2020 by Chris Naffziger

Old State Road follows a ridge line through the foot hills, providing a link from Manchester Road near Ellisville down to Eureka. I imagine it is a very old road. It appears in Julius Pitzmann’s famous map of St. Louis… Continue Reading →

County Barns, Gothic Revival, Historic Buildings, Historic Roads, Houses, Queen Anne Style, West County, Wildwood
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Bluff View Park

Posted on February 26, 2020 by Chris Naffziger

Opened on August 7, 2015, Bluff View Park off Old State Road is a wonderful new addition to St. Louis County Parks. There seems to be a previous history to the acreage, as there are the remnants of an old… Continue Reading →

County Farms, Parks, Ruins, West County, Wildwood
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Open Pit Mining and Rail Bridge, Rockwood Reservation, February 2020

Posted on February 25, 2020 by Chris Naffziger

I finally had the chance to go looking for the open pit clay mine I had seen in a historic photo at the Rockwoods Reservation visitors’ center. I found the piers for the narrow gauge railroad that had accessed the… Continue Reading →

County Bridges, Parks, West County, Wildwood
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Quarry, Rockwoods Reservation, Revisited, February 2020

Posted on February 24, 2020 by Chris Naffziger

It was a beautiful unseasonably warm day yesterday, so I headed out to Rockwoods Reservation. I had heard some reports of devastating flash floods washing out trails and bridges, so I was not able to access the mines that I… Continue Reading →

County Caves, Parks, West County, Wildwood
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Two Houses in Wildwood

Posted on February 21, 2020 by Chris Naffziger

There’s this genteel old house sitting out on St. Albans Road on Manchester Road, way out in Wildwood. It was built in 1913 by J.P. Connell, the president of the Glencoe Clay Company for $1,800. It was a nice house,… Continue Reading →

County Early Twentieth Century Eclectic, Farms, Houses, Queen Anne Style, Rehabilitation, West County, Wildwood
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Bethel United Methodist Church, Wildwood

Posted on February 20, 2020 by Chris Naffziger

Bethel United Methodist Church is a congregation whose roots go deep into the history of West County, all the way back to 1858. In fact, I did not realize it, but I had photographed its original stone church (last photo)… Continue Reading →

County Cemeteries, Churches, Gothic Revival, West County, Wildwood
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Westland Acres

Posted on June 3, 2019 by Chris Naffziger

Update: The sale of the property mentioned in this post did not happen, but individual parcels are still for sale. Due to an eagle-eyed reader, I learned recently that the historic freedmen’s settlement of Westland Acres recently sold for a… Continue Reading →

County Cemeteries, Chesterfield, Churches, Historic Roads, Historic Sites, Modernism, West County, Wildwood
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Historic Pond Drying Up

Posted on August 14, 2013 by Chris Naffziger

Remember last year when I posted about all the great historic, if abandoned buildings out in Pond, a small hamlet along Manchester Road in Wildwood?  Well, the historic Pond Hotel was demolished, and so was the Italianate farmhouse I documented.

County Demolition, Deserted, Hotels, Houses, Italianate, Small Towns, West County, Wildwood
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Old Slave Cemetery

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Chris Naffziger

Update: The Wildwood City Council voted to keep the name in 2013; there has been no other effort to change the name since then. My family and I took a drive out to Old Slave Road and looked to see if… Continue Reading →

Commentary, County Cemeteries, West County, Wildwood

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