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The Fort Belle Fontaine County Park is a unit of the park system of St. Louis County, Missouri. 305.6 acres in size, it is bordered by the Missouri River, by Cold Water Creek, and by the Missouri Hills campus of the Missouri Division of Youth Services (M-DYS). [1]
The Old Fort Belle Fontaine Cemetery was established in 1809, when Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Bissell moved the original Fort Belle Fontaine encampment to a new location. The cemetery was located about 100 yards or so southwest from the Cantonment buildings, which during the period of 1805 to 1826 had interments of at least 30–40 military ...
The area was chosen for its natural advantages, including a large clear water spring called "la belle fontaine" by the early French settlers. By the winter of 1805, Fort Bellefontaine was constructed under the command of Colonel Jacob Kingsbury, with log cabins, a trading house, a bakery, a blacksmith shop, and huts for enlisted soldiers.
Bellefontaine or "belle fontaine" is French for "beautiful fountain". Populated places. France ... Fort Belle Fontaine County Park, in St. Louis, Missouri;
Fort Belle Fontaine. Fort Belle Fontaine, open to the public; Fort Cap au Gris; Fort Crowder; Fort Leonard Wood, closed to the public; Fort Osage, open to the public;
The Upper Mississippi River during the War of 1812. 1: Fort Belle Fontaine U.S. headquarters; 2: Fort Osage, abandoned 1813; 3: Fort Madison, defeated 1813; 4: Fort Shelby, defeated 1814; 5: Battle of Rock Island Rapids, July 1814 and the Battle of Credit Island, Sept. 1814; 6: Fort Johnson, abandoned 1814; 7: Fort Cap au Gris and the Battle of the Sink Hole, May 1815.
West Tyson County Park is a county park in the U.S. state of Missouri consisting of 673 acres (2.72 km 2) located in St. Louis County east of the town of Eureka. [1] The park is located north of Interstate 44, west of Tyson Research Center, east of Route 66 State Park, and south and east of the Meramec River.
Part of US 33 was created in conjunction with the Blue and Gray Trail in 1938 in order to promote a direct and scenic route between the Great Lakes and Virginia's historic Tidewater region. [ 1 ] Route description