Missouri‘s first permanent settlement – Sainte Geneviève (Ste. Geneviève) was a bona fide settlement by 1750. It was the first European settlement of its kind in Missouri. The town’s earliest French-Canadians felt pulled here by its rich, diverse, agricultural promise. When their valley flooded in 1785, Ste. Geneviève relocated to where it is now – …
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