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The Stringtown Project

Updated February 20, 2007

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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

 
Family Photos
  • Stringtown, 1862 Pitzman map of St. Louis County (676 KB)
    This is a plat map showing the names of the persons owning the property at that time. This does not mean that the family by that name lived there at that time because some of the land was rented out to other families. Some of the farmers bought smaller strips of land and had their adult children farm the land and some of the farmers lived in the old town section of St. Ferdinand and came out to work the land. The map was photocopied from an original found at the St. Louis Library headquarters.
  • 1912 aerophoto of priests farm (442 KB)
    This may be the first aerophoto of the St. Stanislaus Seminary.
  • Stringtown 1910 (2278 KB)
    This map was done sometime after 1907. It has the names of the original Spanish land grantees in capital letters and the names of the current land owners in italics with a black square dot for the houses.
 
Related Files
  • The Families of Stringtown. (6 KB)
    This article gives a quick histroy and discription of Stringtown. (Hint-right click on text and hit veiw source)
  • Descendants of Joseph Rosner (3 KB)
    In the 1870s and 80s Joseph Rosner owned a farm on Howdershell which extended back to what is now Riverwood Place. The farm lie next to what is now Belts Aquarium and Trueman Park. Around the turn of the century his son Charles owned a farm on what is now Koch Park. His daughter Esther married Greggory Teson after whom Teson Rd. is named and moved into the Utz house around 1910. Many of the descendants of Joseph live in the area of what was at one time Stringtown.
  • The family tree of Auguste and Amanda Archambault (4 KB)
    This is the family tree of the mountain man Auguste Archambault who married Amanda Peria and settled on Rosary Road (Howdershell) They built a 2 story estate house on their 123 acre farm. Amanda had 13 children, 10 of whom made it to adulthood. Auguste died in Dec., 1880. AJ had a farm of 44 acres right next to his father's
 
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