Tipped off by Found St. Louis, we checked out the Friedens United Church of Christ and its accompanying cemetery. The current sanctuary dates from 1962, I believe, but there was a much older church that dated from 1864. I suspect that the stained glass windows might have come from the older church and were reused…
Category: Surrounding Region
Posts about the Surrounding Region in Missouri
St. Peter’s, St. John’s and Immanuel Lutheran Cemeteries
It’s a little confusing, but there are three cemeteries contiguous to each other to the west of downtown St. Charles, and each has its own section, but there are no boundaries between them. In the southeast corner of the huge area is St. John’s Cemetery. While in the north and west is Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery….
St. Peter Roman Catholic Church, St. Charles
A valued reader alerted me to St. Peter Catholic Church in St. Charles, so we thought we would head over and check it out. The parish, the second one in the city, was organized in 1848, somehow appropriate considering the turmoil happening in Europe at the time. The first, of course, was St. Charles Borromeo….
St. Paul, St. Charles County
The small town of St. Paul takes its name from the Catholic church at the crossroads of Hackman and St. Paul roads, just to the west of Route 79, which follows the bluff line up along the Mississippi River in northern St. Charles County. There is no street grid but rather houses and businesses lining…
Zombie Subdivision, St. Charles County
It’s been a long time since we’ve looked at a zombie subdivision, so what luck it was to discover one while we were on our way to visit the small hamlet of St. Paul in St. Charles County, which we’ll look at tomorrow. The sun was shining and a nice breeze was gently blowing the…
Cottleville, St. Charles County
They’re doing some great things out in St. Charles County. Yes, I know you might be really surprised to hear me say that, but it’s true. Let’s head out to the historic town of Cottleville (where yes, they were still repairing some damage from the unrelenting severe storms that have hit our region this spring),…
The Staircase and the Swimming Pool
It was warming up so we went back out in the area that was cleared for the Weldon Spring Munitions Plant during World War II in St. Charles County. After exploring this staircase, we came across this concrete box of undetermined use. Does anyone know what this could be? Old fence lines survive, as well….
Eldorado Estates
Near Mid Rivers Mall we came upon the neatest trailer park, complete with a stone entryway with the name, Eldorado. The clubhouse is the Spanish Revival style, and there is a bridge over a creek in back to some basketball courts. It was well kept, and it shows that these parks are scattered throughout the…
Mid Rivers Mall
Continuing our examination of the concept of the “shopping mall,” we visited Mid Rivers Mall, located at the intersection of Interstate 70 and Mid Rivers Mall Drive. The mall is doing fine, but it’s not doing great. There are four hundred thousand people located within four or five miles of the mall, and they are…
West of Downtown Union, Franklin County
Heading west from the square and downtown, we come across St. Paul Lutheran Church, founded in 1921 and originally met in an older building. The current church is from 1952. Houses are relatively simple in town. But I did find this nice Queen Anne Style house back closer to the courthouse. Out southwest of town,…