Cheap Things To Do in Sainte Genevieve, Missouri

The site features the 1818 restored Federal style home and mercantile store which is representative of the American influence after the Louisiana Purchase. Settled by French-Canadian habitants in t... More on Heritage

This federal limestone house, Felix Valle House, was built in 1818 as the home of Felix and Odile Pratte Valle ... More on PlanetWare

In 1935, as part of the town’s bicentennial, the Ste. Genevieve Museum was erected. The museum contains many items of interest relating to the town’s history such as artifacts from the salt works a... More on MuseumStuff.com

John and I are both history nuts. We wanted to get a real feel for how life was in the 1700s when Ste. Genevieve was founded. We ... More on igougo

Topics: historic, homes. More on MuseumStuff.com

Restoration of The Mount (Lenox, Massachusetts) Texas Heritage Trails Program (Texas) Bolduc Historic Properties (Sainte Genevieve, ... More on Preserveamerica.gov

The properties include the Louis Bolduc House, an outstanding example of French colonial architecture, and the Bolduc-LeMeilleur House, combining French and American styles. Built in 1770 out near ... More on Heritage

Founded in 1759, the current church was built in the late 19th century. More on PlanetWare

Maison Guibourd - Valle was built about 1784 by a pioneer French settler. The house has elegant 18th and ... More on PlanetWare

This old church bell, a gift to the Catholic Church at Kaskaskia from King Louis XV was cast in France in 1741. It is popularly ... More on EnjoyIllinois.com

'Fort Kaskaskia State Historic Site' is a 200-acre (0.8 km) park near Chester, Illinois, on a blufftop overlooking the Mississippi River. It commemorates the vanished frontier ... More on Wikipedia

Reconstruction of the mid-1700s stone fort that was the base of French control of the Mississippi River Valley; surrendered to the British following the French and Indian ... More on EnjoyIllinois.com

This site marks the location of the last of three successive forts named �de Chartres� built by the French during their eighteenth-century colonial occupation of what is today Illinois. This fort s... More on Heritage

Pierre Menard (1766-1844), a successful French Canadian businessman and fur trader, was presiding officer of the Illinois Territorial Legislature and from 1818 to 1822 served as the first lieutenan... More on Illinoishistory.gov

Pierre Menard was the first lieutenant governor of Illinois in 1818. The restored French Colonial home was bui ... More on PlanetWare

'Kaskaskia Bell State Memorial' is a 1948 brick building in Kaskaskia, Illinois that houses a bell cast in 1741 by King Louis XV of France as a gift to the Mission of the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church at Kaskaskia. Known ... More on Wikipedia