Saint Louis
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- Names
Saint Louis
St. Louis
Saint Louis City
Mound City
Lacledes Village
Pain Court
Pancore
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located on Mississippi River in E Missouri, adjacent to but independent of St. Louis county; largest city in state; given to Spain in 1770 and then to France; after Louisiana purchase, became part of USA; site of first Missouri constitutional convention.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); Faherty, St. Louis History (1989); GRI Photo Study, Authority File (1989); National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
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