Ste. Genevieve, Missouri (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ste. Genevieve (Ste-Genevi ve with French spelling) is a city in and the county seat of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, United States. 3] The population was 11,654 at the 2000 census. Founded by French Canadian colonists, it was the first organized European settlement west of the Mississippi River in present-day Missouri. Founded around 1735 by French habitants and migrants from settlements in the Illinois Country just east of the Mississippi River, Ste. Genevi ve is the oldest permanent European settlement in Missouri. It was named for Saint Genevieve (who lived in the fifth century AD), the patron saint of Paris. While most residents were of French-Canadian descent, many of the founding families had been in the Illinois Country for two or three generations.