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Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church in Crystal City is celebrating its 90th anniversary this month.
The church was founded in 1923, when a group of African-Americans formed a Baptist church. Another group across town was building First Baptist Church, so the new group chose Mount Olive as its name.
That organizing group included Ida and William Underwood, Jake Guess and his wife, Charlie Jackson and his wife, Albert Sergeant and his wife, a Mr. Hayes and a Mrs. Tullock and her husband.
LOOKING BACK is a Leader online feature that highlights historic photos. Readers are invited to submit their historic Jefferson County photos for online publication.
Remember when service stations also repaired automobiles? It seems like a long time ago, but many residents of Arnold remember Arnold Auto Repair.
It’s not likely that anyone remembers the business’s beginnings, as it opened in 1914 as a blacksmith shop, where Joe Gangloff
LOOKING BACK is a Leader online feature that highlights historic photos. Readers are invited to submit their historic Jefferson County photos for online publication.
Parents today think that public schools are ending classes earlier than they used to. Their ancestors, though, remember than in rural areas, school sometimes let out in early April to allow the children to work on family farms.
LOOKING BACK is a Leader online feature that highlights historic photos. Readers are invited to submit their historic Jefferson County photos for online publication.
With the recent move of Oak Bridge Community Church from south St. Louis County to Arnold, now is a good time to take a glimpse at what came before in the church’s new neighborhood.
While the Arnold Historical
LOOKING BACK is a Leader online feature that highlights historic photos. Readers are invited to submit their historic Jefferson County photos for online publication.
The recent LOOKING BACK that dealt with the former White Oak School in Hoene Springs caught the sharp eye of Catherine Nelson of Arnold.
Nelson, who attended White Oak, took exception to a note that the school closed by 1936, absorbed into
LOOKING BACK is a Leader online feature that highlights historic photos. Readers are invited to submit their historic Jefferson County photos for online publication.
Recycling efforts are nothing new. The environmental movement has its roots at least in the late 1960s and early 1970s (although scrap drives held during World War II could be considered a precursor).
This Jefferson College file photo, taken in February
LOOKING BACK is a Leader online feature that highlights historic photos. Readers are invited to submit their historic Jefferson County photos for online publication.
With March Madness under way (and the requisite office pools that accompany that annual tournament), now might be a good time to revisit a time when another championship run took a city by storm.
The year was 1926, and long before anyone
LOOKING BACK is a Leader online feature that highlights historic photos. Readers are invited to submit their historic Jefferson County photos for online publication.
While a new bridge over the Mississippi River is taking shape in downtown St. Louis, southern Jefferson County residents had a faster way to get to Illinois for about seven years in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
According to the book
LOOKING BACK is a Leader online feature that highlights historic photos. Readers are invited to submit their historic Jefferson County photos for online publication.
More than a century ago, Jefferson County’s children were educated in more than 90 school districts.
To call them “school districts” in the modern sense of the word, however, is a misnomer. Many of those “districts,” which were formed between 1870
LOOKING BACK is a Leader online feature that highlights historic photos. Readers are invited to submit their historic Jefferson County photos for online publication.
Back when the Baltimore Orioles were the loveable but hapless St. Louis Browns, there was a saying about St. Louis: “First in shoes, first in booze and last in the American League.”
Back then, in Jefferson County at least, De Soto was first in shoes (as
LOOKING BACK is a Leader online feature that highlights historic photos. Readers
LOOKING BACK is a Leader online feature that highlights historic photos.
LOOKING BACK is a Leader online feature that highlights historic photos. Readers are
LOOKING BACK is a Leader online feature that highlights historic photos. Readers are
LOOKING BACK is a Leader online feature that highlights historic photos. Readers are invited
