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Finding your Founder (LCKK)

Finding your Founder by Bill & Tammy.
Posted: 2/01/06

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Finding your Founder

Locate the residence of a city's founder.

I used to St. Joseph, Missouri which was founded by Joseph Robidoux. In 1843, Joseph engaged two men, Frederick W. Smith and Simeon Kemper to design a town for him. Under Kemper's plan the town was to have been called Robidoux, a feature Kemper thought would appeal to Joseph Robidoux. However, Joseph found Smith's plan more appealing as it would feature much narrower streets, thus leaving more land for Joseph to sell in the form of lots.

Plans for the town were filed with the clerk of Common Pleas in St. Louis on July 26, 1843. Shortly thereafter, Joseph began selling lots, with corner lots going for $150.00 and interior lots $100.00.

In a short time, families planning to settle in the new town began to arrive. Some of these newcomers, especially those who had come up the Missouri River by steamboat, found it difficult to find places to live while their new homes were being built. To meet the need for temporary housing, Robidoux built a series of seven connected houses, or apartments, on the north side of his new town (pictured below). Begun in the 1840's and completed in the late 1850's, the structure was soon given the name of Robidoux Row. Sometime in the late 1850's - probably soon after the death of his wife Angelique in 1857 - Robidoux, himself, moved into a unit in the eastern section of the building. He lived here until his death on May 27, 1868.

1. Locate the residence that is most associated with a city's founder. Report the coordinates.

2. Photograph the structure with your GPSr included in the image.

3. Provide some background information as to the founder, the city and perhaps his or her contributions and the structure's significance to the founder.

A certain location can only be logged once, but a cacher may log multiple locations.

Roubidoux Row as it appears today: N 39? 46.483' W 094? 51.421'