(French lands east of the Mississippi had been ceded to Great Britain and the lands west of the Mississippi to Spain France and Spain were 18th-century allies. In 1764, after France lost the Seven Years' War, Pierre Laclède and his stepson Auguste Chouteau founded what was to become the city of St. Migrants from the French villages on the opposite side of the Mississippi River (e.g.
The earliest European settlements in the area were built in the Illinois Country (also known as Upper Louisiana) on the east side of the Mississippi River during the 1690s and early 1700s at Cahokia, Kaskaskia, and Fort de Chartres. Louis Zoo, the Missouri Botanical Garden, the Saint Louis Art Museum, and Bellefontaine Cemetery and Arboretum. Among the city's notable sights is the 630-foot (192 m) Gateway Arch in Downtown St. Louis City SC of Major League Soccer, anticipated to begin play in 2023, and the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League, St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball, the St.
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Louis has four professional sports teams: the St. The Washington University Medical Center in the Central West End neighborhood hosts an agglomeration of medical and pharmaceutical institutions, including Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Major research universities include Saint Louis University and Washington University in St. Department of Agriculture, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Centene Corporation, and Express Scripts. Major companies headquartered or with significant operations in the city include Ameren Corporation, Peabody Energy, Nestlé Purina PetCare, Anheuser-Busch, Wells Fargo Advisors, Stifel Financial, Spire, Inc., MilliporeSigma, FleishmanHillard, Square, Inc., Anthem BlueCross and Blue Shield, Federal Reserve Bank of St.
It is home to eight Fortune 500 companies. Louis has a diverse economy with strengths in the service, manufacturing, trade, transportation, and tourism industries. In 1904, it hosted the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and the Summer Olympics.Ī " Gamma" global city with a metropolitan GDP of more than $160 billion in 2017, metropolitan St. Louis County in 1877, becoming an independent city and limiting its political boundaries. Louis became a major port on the Mississippi River from 1870 until the 1920 census, it was the fourth-largest city in the country. In 1800, it was retroceded to France, which sold it three years later to the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase the city was then the point of embarkation for the Corps of Discovery on the Lewis and Clark Expedition. In 1764, following France's defeat in the Seven Years' War, the area was ceded to Spain. Maxent, Pierre Laclède and Auguste Chouteau, who named it for Louis IX of France. Louis was founded on February 14, 1764, by French fur traders Gilbert Antoine de St. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, while the bi-state metropolitan area, which extends into Illinois, had an estimated population of over 2.8 million, making it the largest metropolitan area in Missouri, the second-largest in Illinois, and the 20th-largest in the United States.īefore European settlement, the area was a regional center of Native American Mississippian culture. It sits near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. Louis ( / s eɪ n t ˈ l uː ɪ s, s ən t ˈ l uː ɪ s/) is the second-largest city in Missouri.
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