| Cape Girardeau and Ste. Genevieve Scrapbook |
| 1936-1940 |
| Extent: 1 item |
| Accession Number: 2007.131 |
| Abstract: Newspaper articles concerning events in Cape Girardeau and postcards of Ste. Genevieve. |
| Processed by: Brooke Culler, November 2007 |
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Repository:
Special Collections and Archives, Southeast Missouri State University Phone: (573) 651-2245; Fax: (573) 651-2666; Email: semoarchives@semo.edu |
| Citation: Cape Girardeau and Ste. Genevieve Scrapbook, Special Collections and Archives, Southeast Missouri State University |
| Restrictions: None |
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Other Relevant Collections:
Ste. Genevieve Archives (Microfilm), 1756-1930; Ste. Genevieve Scrapbook, 1936-1940; Cape Girardeau County, [MO], The History of the Government of, Scrapbook, 10 Jan 1946; Cape Girardeau Scrapbook, 1927-1933; Cape Girardeau Scrapbook, 1935-1946; Cape Girardeau Scrapbook, 1942-1951; Cape Girardeau Scrapbook, 1968; Cape Girardeau Bridge Scrapbook, 1926-1942; Cape Girardeau-Festivals, Etc. Scrapbook, 1934; Cape Girardeau Educators Scrapbook, 1963-1970; Cape Girardeau Scrapbook, Historic Facts About Early, 1946; Cape Girardeau Scrapbook, Historic Markers of, 1946-1949; (Cape Girardeau) Sesquicentennial Scrapbook, 1956; Cape (Girardeau) Scrapbook, Stories of, c.1934; Cape Girardeau Scrapbook, The Story of, Undated; Cape Girardeau and Southeast Missouri Scrapbook, 1932-1933; |
| Historical Note |
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In the 1730s, a Frenchman named Jean Baptiste
Girardot, for whom Cape Girardeau is named, established a trading post on the
west bank of the Mississippi River. However, Girardot was a trader, not a
settler, and by the middle 1700s Girardot had moved on. In 1793, the Spanish
Government gave Frenchman Louis Lorimier a land grant to establish another
trading post near the river, a few miles south of the site previously
established by Girardot. Early in 1806, the town of Cape Girardeau was laid out
in lots. A petition for incorporation was presented in 1808. Population
expansion at first was slow; however, the age of steamboats allowed easy
movement of manufactured goods on the river, which expedited growth. When the
railroads were completed, it is said that the city's population doubled in just
a few months. Ste. Genevieve is the oldest permanent settlement in Missouri founded in the late 1740s about two miles south of its present location on the banks of the Mississippi River. Creoles from Canada and east of the Mississippi flocked to Ste. Genevieve after George III issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763. Following a flood in 1785, the town moved from its initial location immediately next to the Mississippi about a half-mile inland and two miles north. The most distinctive buildings during this period was the "vertical log" construction where walls of buildings were built based on posts dug into the ground |
| Scope and Content Note |
| Newspaper articles concerning events in Cape Girardeau and postcards of Ste. Genevieve. |
| Rules or Conventions: Finding Aid prepared using DACS |
