Ste. Genevieve Travel Guide

Records indicate that Missouri's oldest community was founded as early as 1735. Ste. Genevieve's French immigrant architecture is nationally famous, especially the "vertical log" cabin construction. The town's French heritage is remembered in street and family names, in architecture, and in celebrations during the year

Ste. Genevieve, Missouri has some of the most important French Cololonial structures in North America. Additionally, the City is the site of other historically significant buildings, for example, the home of U.S. Senator Lewis Linn still stands as does the first brick building west of the Mississippi. The first academy west of the Mississippi is in Ste. Genevieve. What has been described as the oldest cemetary in Missouri is located in Ste. Genevieve. Senator Linn and Missouri's first Congressman, John Scott are buried there.