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…
The Sunset Hills Historical Society’s September 2018 event will be the German Fest, a celebration of the area’s German founding fathers, on Sunday, September 23, 2018. The music of the Joe Polach & the St. Louis Express Band will provide entertainment from 5:00 til 7:00 p.m. on the lawn in front of the on the…
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…
The July meeting of the Sunset Hills Historical Society will feature local Sunset Hills resident and Route 66 aficionado Phil Denton on Monday, July 23, 2018 at 7 PM at the Sunset Hills City Hall. Denton has presented his Route 66 information to the Sunset Hills Historical Society before, but this updated presentation is entitled…
The June meeting of the Sunset Hills Historical Society (SHHS) will feature award-winning Missouri author Ross Malone on Monday, June 25, 2018, at 7 PM at the Sunset Hills City Hall, 3939 South Lindbergh Blvd. Malone has taught in Missouri for over thirty years, and since retiring has worked as a radio host, published more…
Rescheduled from 6/9/18, anthropologist Rachel Murphy Azzara (will now speak on Tuesday, June 12 at 12:30 pm in the Library of Americana and Decorative Arts, on the Historic Sappington House campus. Azzara has worked in the field with the Illinois Department of Transportation and most recently she has been active during the three-year high school…
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.…
Grown and Gathered Heirloom Farm, is a newly formed non-profit to continue farming the land at the Ross A Wagner Historical Center. It will help Sappington-Concord Historical Society preserve the history of the crops and farming methods Ross Wagner and his family used on their farm. It will contrast the historical truck farm with the…
Sappington House Craft Fair 2018 April 28-29, 2018, 9:00-3:00 List of vendors and services Creative Vendors: 1 Leaf Recreations 2 LH Enterprises & AOSM Creations 3 Hamlin Mosaics 4 Happy Fun Books 5 Caricatures to Go 6 Schaefer Ceramics 7 Papillon Perennials 8 Cathy’s Creative Glassworks 9 Cats in the Attic 10 Window to my World 11…
