Webster Groves City Hall is located at 4 East Lockwood Avenue, Webster Groves, MO 63119.
Phone: 314-963-5300.
Neighborhoods
In 1802, Gregoire Sarpy, a frenchman who married into the Chouteau fam.ily, obtained the rustic wooded land that is now Webster Groves [†] from the Spanish colonial government. In 1842, the land was divided and Sarpy's son, John, received the north 360 acres, and Pierre Chouteau Jr. received the south 1640 acres. The dividing line became Lockwood Avenue.
In 1853, as the Pacific Railroad pushed ns way westward, il. built a railroad platform at Church Street, today's Gore Avenue. It was called the Webster Stop after Artemus Bullard' s Webster College for Boys (now Edgewood Children's Center), and Webster began to establish its identity as a commuter suburb. Augustus Moody built a store next to the tracks, founding the commercial district that still thrives today.
During the Civil War, Union soldiers often marched along Rocle Hill Military Road to Jefferson Barracks. Families and friends were divided over their Union and Confederate sympathies. When the war ended in r865, new interest was sparked in Webster Groves. Houses, businesses and churches were built as soldiers returned from the war and St. Louis residents moved west from the cil.y to escape i1:.s heat and germs. Many men com.muted to the cuy daily, while others simply used their Webster Groves homes as summer retreats. After a nationwide depression in the 1870s, Webster Groves began to grow again, with new businesses and new homes pushing out in all directions from the center of town.
† Adapted from: The Heart of Webster: Historic Walking Your, www.webstergrovesmo.gov, accessed July, 2024.
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