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Stringtown was that community, made up mainly at first of families of French Canandian decent and then latter of German, that farmed the area along what is now Howdershell Road in Florissant and Hazelwood, Mo. This area would include what was called the Commond Fields of St. Ferdinand which was made up of the land grants from the king of Spain in the 1700s, the Missouri River Bottom area(from the new Mills Mall to the Charbonare Bluffs) and the old St. Stanislaus Jesuit Seminary. This site looks at the families that comprised the Stringtown community from around the Civil War up to about WWII. The post war building boom changed the community from rural to suburbian and ended it as a distinct entity. A sampling of some of the name included in the Stringtown Project would include but not limited to the following; Azar, Archambault, Aubuchon, Teson, Rosner, Piant, Mareschall, St. Cin, Laramie, and Laguenesse
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