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  2. Gratiot Military Prison - Wikipedia

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    Managed by the United States Army, the Gratiot Military Prison housed Confederate prisoners of war (POW), sympathizers, guerrillas, spies, and federal soldiers accused of crimes. It is well known for being the site of a daring breakout in the last days of the American Civil War. The prison building was previously a medical school named McDowell ...

  3. Benton Barracks - Wikipedia

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    Benton Barracks (or Camp Benton) was a Union Army military encampment, established during the American Civil War, in St. Louis, Missouri, at the present site of the St. Louis Fairground Park. Before the Civil War, the site was owned and used by the St. Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Association, which at the time was located on the outskirts ...

  4. Weiss Airport - Wikipedia

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    Weiss Airport. /  38.53639°N 90.44694°W  / 38.53639; -90.44694. Weiss Airport ( FAA LID: 3WE) was a privately owned, public use airport located at 430 Rudder Ave in Fenton, Missouri in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States, approximately 13 nautical miles (24 km) WSW of St. Louis, Missouri. The airport closed on May 1, 1994.

  5. Municipalities of St. Louis County, Missouri - Wikipedia

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    Municipality Population Total Area (mi2) Population Density/sq mi Ballwin: 31,283 8.95 3,494.6 Bella Villa: 687 0.1 5,468.3 Bellefontaine Neighbors

  6. Midtown St. Louis - Wikipedia

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    Parts of 63103, 63108, 63110. Area code (s) 314. Website. stlouis-mo.gov. Midtown is a neighborhood in St. Louis, Missouri. It is located 3 miles (4.8 km) west of the city riverfront at the intersection of Grand and Lindell Boulevards. It is home to the campus of Saint Louis University and the Grand Center Arts District .

  7. St. Francis de Sales Oratory (St. Louis) - Wikipedia

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    78003393 [1] Added to NRHP. November 2, 1978. St. Francis de Sales Church (the Oratory of Saint Francis de Sales) is a Roman Catholic Oratory located in south St. Louis, Missouri, United States. It is the second largest church in the Archdiocese of St. Louis after the cathedral-basilica. The church is popularly known as the "Cathedral of South ...

  8. History of Bosnian Americans in St. Louis - Wikipedia

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    History. St. Louis Bosnian Chamber of Commerce, April 2013. The first wave of Bosnians arrived in the 1990s as refugees of the Bosnian War. [1] According to the refugee organization International Institute of St. Louis, the metropolitan area had about 70,000 people of Bosnian origin circa the late 1990s and early 2000s, the highest recorded ...

  9. Dogtown, St. Louis - Wikipedia

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    Dogtown, St. Louis. Coordinates: 38°37′33″N 90°17′36″W. Tamm Avenue, Dogtown, July 2012. Dogtown is a traditionally Irish section of St. Louis, Missouri. It is located south of Forest Park, with its southeastern edge abutting the traditionally Italian section of town, The Hill neighborhood.