Blue's Gate  v10-13 Ch 20 Deu
   Jesus        Father

v10 When you march up to attack a city, make its people an
        offer of peace.
v12  If they refuse to make peace and they engage you in battle, 
         lay seige to that city.

           Old North St. Louis - Neighborhood 63

Architecture & Early Slums
New England Architectural (strength-LOOSE the gift of spiritual building) antecedants may be seen in some houses dating back to the 1830's.

1850's  Germans & Poles supplanted (weakness - BIND undermining the gospel and scheming) original New England residents and were themselves succeeded since the depression of the 1930's by rural SE Missouri & Arkansas families.

                                Weakness - BIND rebellion
1840's  2-3 story rowhouses were built for immigrant laborers arriving here in the 1840's-1850's.  After Civil War many of these structures fell.  Those that remained deterioriated into slums "noxious" by 1870.  "Their residents descended to the depths of depravity & crime..."  Nicknames such as "Castle Thunder"  "Crabber Alley"  "Wild Cat Chute" & "People of all ages & races lived in conditions of indescribable filth, promiscuity, & disease."  Industries later replaced the slums.
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Development
West of Carr Square, German Protestant residents developed housing (strength - LOOSE economic growth) into a neighborhood of brick houses, sidewalks, white stone steps & trim.

Carr Square: Developed by Irish immigrants who built cheap (weakness - BIND poverty mindset)one room shacks.  Some Irishmen became police & firemen, doctors, lawyers, government figures.
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Churches

Mrs. Ann Biddle donated land (LOOSE the land to its original God calling)and Francis Saler built a Gothic brick Roman Catholic Church in 1843 at 6th & Biddle Street... 

   Please Don't Let It End This Way
 that was later destroyed by the tornado (BIND spiritual chaos) of 1896.  The Irish parish infused with other nationalities.

Father Timothy Dempsey, Pastor of St. Patricks 1898, is noted for work among city's poor (LOOSE gifts/talents into God's work and love) & his hotel for homeless men.  The church was remodeled in 1936 in the Spanish style & razed (BIND destruction & premature death) in 1973.

1843  St. Francis Xavier College Church (LOOSE the mind of Christ) was completed, the chapel given over to the German Catholics.

Church & attendance has been affected by the declining neighborhood and the Church's continued existence is now considered precarious (BIND wavering/doubtful thinking).

*Father we loose a height of rapid spiritual growth for the spiritual mothers to teach/train Your children the Ways of the LORD that the position comes into understanding of the constant need to grow up into You Father and become the Sons of God, the Bride of Christ, the Lamb's Wife in Jesus Precious Name.  Thank You Christ.

The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus Church   
                                                  Established 1871
                                                   Completed 1899
                                                        Notable  Dome (LOOSE)

St. Augutine's Catholic Church 
                                  Originated 1874
                                      Notable  Rapid Growth (LOOSE)

St. Stanislaus Kostka Polish Catholic Church
                                                         Originated 1879
                                                        Completed  1882
                                                             Notable  Mother Church (LOOSE)
                                                                             of 3 other Polish Catholic 
                                                                             Parishes

4th Baptist Protestant Church
                                  Originated 1857
                                   Dedicated 1862
                                             Built 1887
                                  Succeeded 1924
                                       Notable Sunday School/Work with youth (LOOSE)

Greeley Presbyterian Church,
An outgrowth of the Protestant Free School
                                                              Founded 1840
                                                               Notable  Relocated/Growth (LOOSE)
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Ethnic Background    Immigrants

 Highlanders

This area settled in waves of immigrants.  First German, then Irish(1842), Italian, Polish(1870), Jewish (1880's), Russian & the Balkan countries (1920).  "The Depression & WWII brought blacks into the area in large numbers. They moved into decrepit buildings."

Prohibition Gangs - "Egan Rats"  "Green Ones"  "Hogan Gang" interacted in Gang Wars, 1st the Irish Gangs then the Italian gangsters.  (BIND misguided spiritual progression & skill)

(LOOSE - True God sent skill)
German - scientific & technological leader
Irish - excellence in scientific research (fiber optics
                                                technology)
Italian - The Language of Love
Polish - Research & Development Institutes
Jewish - Most advanced in economic & industrial
                                          development in southwestern Asia.  2nd
                                           largest number of start up companies
                                           in the world after the United States.
 Russian - Literature; most influential & developed in the
                                           world, Sports, Classical Music

Balkan Countries - A Region of southeastern Europe, is mostly covered by mountain ranges.  The Danube is part of the northern border and is the 2nd longest river in Europe, and one of the principal transportation arteries on the continent (LOOSE the gospel to travel around the continents).
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Industrial Development

1840's The Riverfront - principally industrial
1850's Firms - STL GRAIN Elevator (LOOSE successful principles
                                                                used to live out everyday life)
                          STL SUGAR Refining Company (LOOSE love to work
                                                                                  sincerely through us)
 
Late 1800's Sugar Trade: St. Louis was kown in the West as the Chief Center (LOOSE Godly leaders).
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Crime Case Data                                  Neighborhood 63



(BIND by repenting for violence, greed, hate, unforgiveness, bitterness)
(LOOSE healing, the love of God, Mercy, Compassion, Forgiveness, Godly Character)


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Locale & Topography


1780  The near north side, STL Common Fields:  British-Indian attack;
           settlers working in these long, narrow field plots were 
              massacred (BIND - repent for division & hate) by invading Indians.

 
                                                       (LOOSE Jesus' Spice Mound
                                                         of Fresh Anointing)

Prominent early day landmark "Big Mound" at northeast corner of Broadway & Mound Street was 30'h x 150'L.  At the time of its removal in 1869 it was found to be an Indian burial mound, largest out from about a dozen riverfront mounds that extended southward.  General William H. Ashley built his country home on top of one mound, another was used as a reservoir for the 1st city waterworks, and Vauxhall Gardens was built on top of "Big Mound" in the 1820's.  Just east of the mounds were 3 terraces believed to have been used as approaches for religious ceremonies.  From these mounds St. Louis received its sobriquet "The Mound City" (BIND false words & their implications).
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