The Beginning. The state of Missouri was organized in 1821 and Joseph Robidoux established the Blacksnake Hills trading post with the Indians in 1826.

The city was named after the town's founder Joseph Robidoux and the biblical Saint Joseph. ... St. Joseph is home to Missouri Western State University. In the ... List of people from St. Joseph... · Missouri Theater · Buchanan County, Missouri

Robidoux laid out the town in 1843 and named it for his patron saint. During the California Gold Rush (1849), St. Joseph boomed as a steamboat base and supply ...

In 1845, John Patee, a native New Yorker, traveling west selling agricultural machinery, purchased two quarter sections of land and had them divided into lots ...

Today, St. Joe has 18 historical museums, many of which preserve Civil War-era buildings and chronicle the mid-19th century American West.

Founding. St. Joseph was established in 1826 by Joseph Robidoux, a fur trader from St. Louis, who saw the potential for trade along the Missouri River.

St Joseph became the 2nd city in Missouri to open a public high school. In March 1861, the Board of Public Schools invited Professor Edward B Neely to conduct a ...

St. Joseph, Missouri was established as the Blacksnake Hills Trading Post in 1826 and soon became one of the most bustling cities in the Old West.

Founded in 1843, St. Joseph quickly grew to become one of the most important sites of commerce and trade for the western continent.

St. Joseph, MO History. On the busy banks of the Missouri River, the city of St. Joseph was platted and conveyed by founder Joseph Robidoux in 1843.