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Genevieve, Missouri Location of Ste.
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Genevieve Genevieve Genevieve (Ste-Genevieve with French spelling) is a town/city in Ste.
Genevieve Township and is the governmental center of county of Ste.
Genevieve County, Missouri, United States. The populace was 4,410 at the 2010 census.
Founded in 1735 by French Canadian colonists and pioneer from east of the river, it was the first organized European settlement west of the Mississippi River in present-day Missouri.
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Genevieve Founded around 1812 by Canadien pioneer and migrants from settlements in the Illinois Country just east of the Mississippi River, Ste.
Genevieve is the earliest permanent European settlement in Missouri.
It was titled for Saint Genevieve (who lived in the 5th century AD), the patron saint of Paris, the capital of France.
It is one of the earliest colonial settlements west of the Mississippi River. This region was known as New France, Illinois Country, or the Upper Louisiana territory.
Prior to the French Canadian settlers, indigenous citizens s known as the Mississippian culture and earlier cultures had been living in the region for more than a thousand years.
Genevieve in the Illinois Country, showed the Kaskaskia natives on the east side of the river, but no Indian village on the west side inside 100 miles of Ste.
Genevieve was the last of a triad of French Canadian settlements in this region of the mid-Mississippi Valley region.
About five miles northeast of Ste.
Genevieve on the east side of the river was Fort de Chartres (in the Illinois Country); it stood as the official capital of the area.
Prairie du Rocher and Cahokia, Illinois were also early small-town French colonial settlements on the east side of the river.
Following defeat by the British in the French and Indian War, in 1762 with the Treaty of Fontainebleau, France secretly ceded the region of the west bank of the Mississippi River to Spain, which formed Louisiana (New Spain).
Although under Spanish control for more than 40 years, Ste.
Genevieve retained its French language, customs and character.
In 1763, the French ceded the territory east of the Mississippi to Great Britain in the Treaty of Paris that ended Europe's Seven Years' War, also known on the North American front as the French and Indian War.
French-speaking citizens from Canada and pioneer east of the Mississippi went west to escape British rule; they also flocked to Ste.
Genevieve after George III issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763.
During the 1770s, Little Osage and Missouri tribes repeatedly raided Ste.
Genevieve to steal settlers' horses.
The tribes established villages south of Ste.
Genevieve.
Genevieve in the 1780s but had a peaceful relationship with the village.
Genevieve, commercial diplomacy and rewards of the fur trade eased some relations. Le Vieux Village (Old Ste.
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Following the great flood of 1785, the town moved from its initial locale on the floodplain of the Mississippi River, to its present locale two miles north and about a half mile inland.
In 1807, Frederick Bates, the secretary of the Louisiana Territory after the United States made the Louisiana Purchase, noted Ste.
Genevieve was "the most wealthy village in Louisiana" (meaning the full Territory). Genevieve, described as "French Creole colonial", were all assembled amid Spanish rule of the late 18th century.
Three of the five surviving poteaux en terre homes in the country are in Ste.
Genevieve.
The Louis Bolduc originally assembled a lesser home in 1770 at Ste.
Genevieve's first riverfront location.
Other structures of note are the 1806 La Maison de Guibourd Historic House, the 1818 Felix Valle House State Historic Site, the 1792 Beauvais-Amoureux House, the 1790s Bequette-Ribault House, and the 1808 Old Louisiana Academy, all of which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Genevieve was chiefly an agricultural community.
This territory was assigned and cultivated in the French style, in long, narrow strips that extended back from the river to the hills (at the first location) so that each settler would have some waterfront.
Genevieve Catholic Church was assembled in 1876 and modeled after the Gothic style of those in France.
Genevieve continues to jubilate its French cultural tradition with various annual affairs.
Genevieve-Modoc Ferry athwart the Mississippi River to Illinois is nicknamed the "French Connection" because of its link to other French colonial sites in the area.
Genevieve mayors Henry Brackenridge - lived here as a boy with an ethnic French family, and wrote about them, the town and the Osage in his memoir.
Genevieve Academy Genevieve is positioned at 37 58 37 N 90 2 55 W (37.976960, -90.048672). The town/city is positioned along the west bank of the Mississippi River near the Illinois state line along Interstate 55, U.S.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 4.11 square miles (10.64 km2), of which, 4.10 square miles (10.62 km2) is territory and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km2) is water. Genevieve Herald is a weekly journal that has served Ste.
Genevieve County since May 1882.
There were 2,018 housing units at an average density of 492.2 per square mile (190.0/km2).
There were 1,824 homeholds of which 27.2% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 43.6% were married couples living together, 11.5% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 4.4% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 40.4% were non-families.
There were 1,965 housing units at an average density of 472.7 per square mile (182.4/km2).
There were 1,818 homeholds out of which 27.6% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 49.7% were married couples living together, 10.6% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 36.5% were non-families.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 21.9% under the age of 18, 7.7% from 18 to 24, 25.0% from 25 to 44, 21.8% from 45 to 64, and 23.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
Historic flags of Ste.
French in the United States "The Ste.
Genevieve Herald tagline "Printed in the Mother City of the West since 1882"".
Ekberg, Colonial Ste.
Genevieve: An Adventure on the Mississippi Frontier, Gerald, MO: The Patrice Press, 1985, pp.
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Genevieve: An Adventure on the Mississippi Frontier (Gerald, MO: The Patrice Press, 1985) From French Community to Missouri Town: Ste.
Genevieve in the Nineteenth Century (University of Missouri Press, 2006) 232 pp.
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Genevieve, Inc.
Genevieve County Historical and Genealogical Resources Sainte Genevieve Chamber of Commerce Felix Valle State Historic Site Missouri Department of Natural Resources Genevieve Herald Historic maps of Ste.
Genevieve in the Sanborn Maps of Missouri Collection at the University of Missouri Municipalities and communities of Sainte Genevieve County, Missouri, United States
Categories:
French-American culture in Missouri - French-Canadian culture in the United States - Missouri populated places on the Mississippi River - Cities in Ste.
Genevieve County, Missouri - County seats in Missouri - Populated places established in 1735 - French colonial settlements of Upper Louisiana - 1735 establishments in the French colonial empire
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