Missouri also has more miles per capita than any metro area, and has more than 1 million people living there. Saint Louis university is the oldest university west of the mississippi. Also the tallest man ever documented was in missouri and he was eight feet eleven point one inches tall.
Creve Coeur's name means broken heart in French .It comes from nearby Creve Coeur Lake. Legend has it that an Indian princess fell in love with a French fur trapper, but the love was not returned. According to the story, she then leapt from a ledge overlooking Creve Coeur Lake; the lake then formed itself into a broken heart. legend has it that the indian Princess still awaits her fur trapper, never to return to her tribe.
President Harry S. Truman was born in Lamar May eighth, eighteen eighty four. Missouri was named after an Indian tribe, the Missouri Indians which means “Town of the large canoes”. Charleston holds the Dogwood-Azalea Festival annually on the third weekend of April. "Charleston becomes a blooming …show more content…
Their oldest community ,St.Genevieve was founded in seventeen thirty-five. Our state is one of the most interesting state to us. In eighteen twelve Missouri was organized as a territory and later admitted the twenty fourth state of the Union on August tenth eighteen twelve. In eighteen sixty five Missouri became the first slave state to free its slaves from “the gates of hell”. Hermann, Missouri is a storybook German village with a rich wine-making and riverboat history that is proudly displayed in area museums. Built in eighteen thirty six as the "New Fatherland" for German settlers, the town has achieved national recognition because of its quality wines and distinctive heritage.Auguste Chouteau founded Saint Louis in seventeen sixty