![]() Pioneers were permitted to settle if they cleared land and built a dwelling. In 1682 French explorer La Salle claimed the entire Mississippi River basin for France, calling it the Louisiana Territory. Marquette later drew a map naming both a Native American Indian tribe and the territory Missouri. ![]() ![]() In 1673, French Jesuit priest Jacques Marquette and fur trader Louis Jolliet canoed thru the Meramec River’s confluence with the Mississippi River near Arnold. Originally named House Spring, House Springs is for certain very much different today than it was years ago. House Springs history is fraught with tragedy, sadness, bankruptcy, violence, poverty, illness and disappointment – not to mention unnatural death. Missouri Osage warrior painted by George Catlin early 1800s Public domain imageįifteen miles from Arnold, some folks believe the unincorporated House Springs area is haunted by ghosts of massacred pioneers, dead children, murderers, thieves and Native American Indians.
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