28th Annual Sappington-Concord Historical Society Memorial Day Service On the Green at St Lucas UCC church – 11735 Denny Rd, St. Louis, MO 63126 Starts promptly at 9:00 am, bring a lawn chair, water is provided. The program includes: Rev. Brad Urban, Prince of Peace UCC – Invocation and Benediction LTC Rhonda…
Sappington-Concord Historical Society invites community to celebrate local veterans during SCHS Annual Memorial Day Celebration 2019, “the biggest, little annual Memorial Day celebration in South County.” Monday, May 27, 10 am, on the green at St Lucas United Church of Christ, 11735 Denny Road, 63126. The annual family-friendly celebration is free and open to the public. See…
September 19 – “The Great Pyramids of St. Louis: An Ancient Metropolis” by Mark Leach at Friendship Village South in Sunset Hills. Mark Leach details the history of the mounds and the culture of the Native American population. Approximately 1000 years ago, the St. Louis area was the very epicenter of an extraordinary explosion of…
July 18 – “St. Louis State Hospital: A 150-Year Journey toward Hope” by Amanda Hunyar at Friendship Village South in Sunset Hills. While the St. Louis State Hospital dome has loomed over the St. Louis skyline for 150 years, the goings-on behind the closed doors of this mysterious complex of South City buildings has been the…
June 20 – “Celebration: : The Magic of the Cardinals in the 1980s” by Dan O’Neill at Friendship Village South in Sunset Hills. On the history of the baseball Cardinals in the 1980’s. Cardinals baseball has become more than a pastime in St. Louis. The association with baseball and all things red is a regional…
“St Louis Sound” by Amanda Doyle From the French fiddlers of the fur trading days to the rock and hip hop icons of the present millennium, St. Louis has been a town rich in musical history. Though it has rarely been cited as a center of any scene, any area that has been home to…
October 29, Monday, SCHS Fall General Meeting at St. Johns UCC, 11333 St. Johns Church Road 63123: Doors open at 6:30 pm, brief business meeting 7:00 to 7:20 pm. “A Review of Historic Resources in South St. Louis County” by Esley Hamilton of St. Louis County Parks. Now a board member of this society, Esley…
Remember the doves of peace at the annual SCHS Memorial Day ceremony? They were homing pigeons, released by Charlie Klipsch and the Mount Pleasant Pigeon Club. Visit Charlie and his pigeons on Saturday, August 18 at 10:00 am. Meet at Saint Catherine Laboure Catholic Church, 9740 Sappington Road, Saint Louis, MO 63128. We will…
Laying out a unit and defining the edges with string guide Starting to dig, carefully taking off a thin layer of soil with shovels Screening Some early finds, a railroad spike, square nail, chip of ceramic with stamped design Some tools of the trade
The Sunset Hills Historical Society (SHHS) meeting on Monday evening, May 21, 2018, will be a program that will feature the archaeology of the Sappington/Sunset Hills area. Anthropologist Rachel Murphy Azzara has a degree in anthropology from Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville, and has worked in the field for the Illinois Department of Transportation. She…
Ceremony sponsored by SCHS, Sappington-Concord Historical Society on Memorial Day morning. Monday, May 28 10:00 am, on the green at St Lucas UCC at 11735 Denny Road, St. Louis, Missouri 63126, in Sunset Hills. The historical society ceremony is generously hosted by St Lucas UCC on the green just east of the church along Denny…
“The Secret History of St. Louis’ Weather and What We Can Learn From It” by Andrew Hurley Weather rarely occupies a prominent place in the history of modern cities. The prospect of global warming and increasingly erratic weather patterns, however, demand that we take a closer look at how urban populations have responded…
Ross A Wagner Historical Center is at 9148 Sappington Road, St Louis, Missouri, 63126 On Sappington Road in Sappington, Missouri, an incorporated area south of Crestwood. Going from Watson Road south on Sappington Road, pass through the stoplights at Old Sappington Road and Eddie and Park Road. There is a Presbyterian on the southeast corner.…
