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  • Home History Resource: Census Records

    By Stephanie Herbers1 Comment on Home History Resource: Census Records

    Curious about your home’s past residents? St. Louis Public Library has several great, and FREE, resources for researching your home’s past; all you need is a library card. One helpful resource is HeritageQuest. HeritageQuest gives you access to census records (up to 1940). For those of you who live in multi-family homes, census records can [...]

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  • Businesses of Shaw’s Past

    By Stephanie Herbers7 Comments on Businesses of Shaw’s Past

    Shaw Historical Business Map Are you curious about what businesses used to be in buildings throughout the neighborhood? Cara Jensen, Shaw resident and owner of Sherlock Homes, has started compiling this information in a Google map. To date she has added businesses that were present in 1956, their status in 2015, and is [...]

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  • A Bit of Shaw History: Henry Flad

    By Stephanie Herbers1 Comment on A Bit of Shaw History: Henry Flad

     Two of Shaw’s streets are named after engineers who made significant contributions to the City of St. Louis— Flad Avenue (Henry W. Flad) and Klemm Avenue (Richard Klemm). Below is a brief history of Henry Flad that first appeared in the January newsletter of the American Society of Civil Engineers- St. Louis Section. Henry Flad: A [...]

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  • Spotlight on Shaw: Highway Once Proposed for Tower Grove Park

    By Stephanie Herbers0 Comments on Spotlight on Shaw: Highway Once Proposed for Tower Grove Park

    “I think that I shall never see a highway as lovely as a tree…” This is the caption of an editorial cartoon that caught my attention as I looked through clippings in a binder marked A Bit of Shaw History from 1958-1971. With funds budgeted in a bond issue approved in a city-wide election in [...]

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