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1 11 Stovall’s Grove 21 Old Pond School & Park 31 Ridge Road 2 Big Chief Roadhouse 12 Wabash, Frisco & Pacific (WF&P) Railroad 22 Pond Athletic Association 32 St. Paul Road 3 Community Park-Wildwood 13 Wildwood Historical Society (WHS) 23 Rock Hollow Trail 33 Woods Road 4 Equine Assisted Therapy (E.A.T.) 14 The Wyman Center (Camp Wyman) 24 Wildwood Municipal Building 34 Allenton Road 5 15 Al Foster Memorial Trail 25 Wildwood’s Original City Hall 35 Bouquet Road 6 Hidden Valley Ski Resort 16 Anniversary Park 26 Fox Creek Veterinary Hospital 36 Fox Creek Road 7 LaSalle Retreat & Conference Center 17 Bethel Church 27 Kreienkamp Store 37 Hencken Road 8 Metro West Fire Protection Headquarters 18 Bluff View Park & Trail 28 Alt Road 38 Melrose Road 9 Rockwoods Range 19 Glencoe City Park 29 Historic Route 66 (Manchester Road) 10 20 Marianist Retreat Center 30 Old State Road WILDWOOD POINTS OF INTEREST [A continuation from the 31 Points of Interest identified in 2017]

1 Babler State Park 24 Wildwood Municipal Building 36 Fox Creek Road 800 Guy Park Drive, Wildwood, MO 63005, #: (636) 458-3813 16860 Main Street, Wildwood, MO 63040, #: (636) 458-0440 Fox Creek Road, aptly named after the creek it parallels and the area along https://mostateparks.com/park/dr-edmund-babler-memorial-state-park http://www.cityofwildwood.com its length, can trace its history back to the Native Americans, based upon settlements and artifacts found there. Originally, this roadway connected 2 Big Chief Roadhouse 25 Wildwood Original City Hall the historic communities of Fox Creek and Allenton (now within the City of Eureka) and then served as a connector to Route 66 during the peak years of 17352 Manchester Rd, Wildwood, MO 63038, #: (636) 458-3200 16962 Manchester Road, Wildwood, MO 63040 The Mother Road. Today, this road is a north-south connection between State http://www.bigchiefstl.com 26 Fox Creek Veterinary Hospital Route 100 (Manchester Road) and Interstate 44. 3 Community Park-Wildwood 18962 Hwy 100, Wildwood, Missouri, 63069, #: (636) 458-6569 The area was originally settled by Samuel Harris in 1827, who then opened 2153 State Route 109, Wildwood, MO 63038, #: (636) 458-0440 https://foxcreekveterinaryhospital.com the first Fox Creek Post Office along Manchester Road in 1833. A number of www.cityofwildwood.com properties along its length are listed on the City’s Historic Inventory and date 27 Kreienkamp Store back to the early 1900s, reflective of the settlement patterns in this area of St. 4 Equine Assisted Therapy (E.A.T.) (no public access; now a private residence) Louis County. Since that time, Fox Creek Road has had limited development. It still serves a mostly residential, low-density land use pattern, with large lots, 3369 State Route 109, Wildwood, MO 63038, #: (314) 971-0605 19160 Melrose Road, Wildwood, MO 63038 agricultural and equestrian uses lining the length of the roadway. Fox Creek http://eatherapy.org/ Road also provides access to Rockwoods Range, a 1,453 acre conservation area managed by the Missouri Department of Conservation. The area is home 5 Greensfelder County Park to a wide variety of wildlife and used for bird watching, hiking, mountain SCENIC BYWAYS biking, and equestrian trail rides. 4515 Hencken Road, Wildwood, MO 63069 http://www.stlouisco.com/ParksandRecreation/ParkPages/Greensfelder 28 Alt Road The northern connection of Fox Creek Road, at State Route 100, is near the http://www.cityofwildwood.com/2017poimap Franklin County-St. Louis County Line and the western limits of the City of 6 Hidden Valley Ski Resort Wildwood. With exception of Fox Creek Veterinary Hospital, located at the 17049 Hidden Valley Drive, Wildwood, MO 63025, #: (636) 938-5373 29 Historic Route 66 - The Mother Road intersection of Fox Creek Road and State Route 100, only residences line this http://hiddenvalleyski.com two-lane roadway throughout its length within the City of Wildwood. Fox (Manchester Road) Creek Veterinary Hospital, which opened its doors in 2000, serves local own- 7 LaSalle Retreat & Conference Center http://www.cityofwildwood.com/2017poimap ers of dogs, cats, and horses. 2101 Rue De LaSalle, Wildwood, MO 63038, #: (636) 938-5374 The southern terminus of Fox Creek Road is within the City of Eureka, at Allen- http://www.lasalleretreat.org 30 Old State Road ton Road, near Six Flags Amusement Park and Interstate 44. Near its southern http://www.cityofwildwood.com/2017poimap limit, within the City of Eureka, is Jellystone Park Resort Campground. During 8 Metro West Fire Protection District Headquarters the holiday season, the campground is called Santa’s Magical Kingdom, which 17065 Manchester Road, Wildwood, MO 63040, #: (636) 458-2100 31 Ridge Road allows drivers to tour the property to see millions of holiday lights. At the http://www.metrowest-fire.org http://www.cityofwildwood.com/2017poimap interchange with Allenton Road and Interstate 44, within the City of Eureka, the land use pattern changes to commercial uses, featuring a number of con- 9 Rockwoods Range venience stores with gas pumps, a fast-food restaurant, with drive-through 32 St. Paul Road facility, a hotel, and Six Flags Amusement Park. Parking areas - 5035 Fox Creek Road and 4360 Fox Creek Road, http://www.cityofwildwood.com/2017poimap Wildwood, MO 63069 https://nature.mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/places/rockwoods-range 33 Woods Road 37 Hencken Road http://www.cityofwildwood.com/2017poimap Hencken Road was named after the homestead of the Dietrich Hencken 10 Rockwoods Reservation family, who came from Germany in 1837. The family’s homestead was near 2751 Glencoe Road, Wildwood, MO 63038, #: (636) 458-2236 34 Allenton Road State Route 100 (Manchester Road), in the area known as Hollow. The historic https://nature.mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/places/rockwoods-reservation community of Hollow, located in far west Wildwood, is about five miles west Allenton Road was named after the historic community of Allenton, a railroad of State Route 109, on what is now State Route 100 (formerly Route 66). The 11 Stovall’s Grove town located at this roadway’s southern terminus within the current City of village’s name started as “Deutsch Hollow,” so called by the German settlers Eureka. Today, Allenton Road is a north-south connector between Interstate and named for “Dutch” Charlie Paffrath, who came to the area in 1834 and 18720 Stovall Lane, Wildwood, MO 63039, #: (636) 405-3024 44 on the south, and State Route 100 (Manchester Road) on the north (via kept a tavern on the much traveled highway. http://www.stovallsgrove.com Melrose Road). Within the City of Eureka, on its extreme southern portion, Allenton Road, serves commercial uses and Six Flags Amusement Park. Hencken Road linked the historic communities of Hollow and Allenton. It 12 Wabash, Frisco, & Pacific (WF&P) Railroad provided, and still to this day, serves a north-south connection from Allenton 101 Grand Avenue, Wildwood, MO 63038, #: (636) 587-3538 The community of Allenton was named after the individual who platted the Road to State Route 100. In its day, the tavern in Hollow was widely known www.wfprr.com town in 1852, Thomas R. Allen, president of the Missouri-Pacific Railroad and a popular stopping place for travelers. The route was used during the (MoPac), one of the first railroads west of the Mississippi River. Allenton was California and Kansas migrations and a relay point for the Jefferson City stage- home to the then new Route 66 alignment built in that area in 1932. Its only coach line, and then part of the original portion of Route 66. During its hey- 13 Wildwood Historical Society (WHS) Route 66 attraction was a bus stop shelter built there in 1939. The shelter is no day, a number of businesses and stores were in the area. Today, just west of 18750 State Route 100, Wildwood, MO 63069, #: (636) 458-2860 longer in its original location in Allenton, but has been preserved within the Hencken Road’s intersection with State Route 100, the historic dance hall and http://www.wildwoodhistoricalsociety.org Shaw Nature Reserve that is located in nearby Gray Summit. Allenton began roadhouse, known as Stovall’s Grove remains, still serving cold beer and live as a stop on the Union-Pacific Railroad and remained a depot town, until it music. Also in this area, is the Henry Hencken Homestead, Dietrich’s brother, 14 The Wyman Center (Camp Wyman) was declared a blighted area in 1973. which is now the site of the Wildwood Historical Society’s Museum. 600 Kiwanis Drive, Wildwood, MO 63025, #: (636) 938-5245 Just north of the amusement park, the roadway enters the City Limits of At its northern terminus with State Route 100, Hencken Road previously http://wymancenter.org Wildwood for the remainder of its length. Allenton Road provides access to a boasted a small filling station, owned by a member of the Poertner Family. low-density residential land use pattern, including a large number of eques- Today, this area is the Wildwood Memorial Gardens, land designated for a 15 Al Foster Memorial Trail trian properties, and Greensfelder County Park. Greensfelder County Park, cemetery. The roadway travels south to Allenton Road, and is similar in nature, 225 Grand Avenue, Wildwood, MO 63038, #: (636) 458-0440 donated to St. Louis County in 1963, was named after A. P. Greensfelder, the in that it serves a very low-density residential land use pattern and Greens- http://www.cityofwildwood.com founder of the St. Louis Regional Planning and Construction Foundation and felder County Park. the chairman of the board of the Fruin-Colnon Construction Company. The 16 Anniversary Park area was originally assembled in the 1850s by the owners of Woods, Christy & Three (3) properties along Hencken Road are listed on the City’s Historic Company to log the area for lumber and then passed on to a descendant of Inventory and date back to 1853, with the oldest being the Niesen House. The 16511 Clayton Road, Wildwood, MO 63011, #: (636) 458-0440 Christy to extract the clay for his Christy Fire Clay Company, before ultimately Niesens owned 95+ acres and were neighbors of the Henckens. http://www.cityofwildwood.com selling the 300 acres. Today, the area’s size is 1,734 acres and a popular park with a number of pavilions, a playground, a visitor center, equestrian areas, 17 Bethel Church and a ropes challenge course. Many equestrian, hiking, and mountain biking 38 Melrose Road trails traverse the parkland. 17500 Manchester Road, Wildwood, MO 63038, #: (636) 458-2255 Melrose Road, named after the Village of Melrose, was settled in 1851, when http://bethelunitedmethodist.org Charles H. Haven acquired 1,000 acres of Federal Land Claims and platted the A number of the existing residential properties along Allenton Road are listed place as a nucleus for a great “Park of Fruits of a Thousand Acres.” It contained on the City’s Historic Inventory and date back to 1860, including the Muess- fruit trees and flowers of every description, as well as orchards and vineyards, 18 Bluff View Park & Trail meyer House. This log structure is part of what used to be the U & H Muess- reportedly costing $15,000, a vast sum at the time. Herman Kreienkamp, as a 1900 Old State Road, Wildwood, MO 63038, #: (636) 458-0440 meyer Property, the owner of which was a Civil War veteran, who walked fifteen year old youth, remembered planting the hills in grapevines and trees. http://www.cityofwildwood.com home to this house at the end of his service. This huge undertaking provided employment for many area residents. Mr. Ha- ven then sold stock in the Vine & Fruit Growers Association of St. Louis County. 19 Glencoe City Park 35 Bouquet Road Investors included Prince Alexander of Russia, who visited St. Louis in 1872. But 505 Washington Avenue, Wildwood, MO 63038, #: (636) 458-0440 the enterprise fell into debt and the sheriff eventually sold the property. http://www.cityofwildwood.com Bouquet Road is a north-south roadway that joins Melrose Road to the north and Old Manchester Road to the south. At its north terminus, located just Herman Kreienkamp later became a merchant in Melrose, and, in 1860, built 20 Marianist Retreat Center west of Ossenfort Road, the roadway ends in the heart of the historic Melrose a large frame store and post office. This structure was sometimes referred Community. It parallels the Franklin County Line, before reaching its southern to as Melrose Hall, as the building could be rented out for events during the 4000 Highway 109, Wildwood, MO 63025, #: (636) 938-5390 terminus at Old Manchester Road, just northwest of the State Route 100 and 1880s. It still stands today, known as the Kreienkamp Store, and is listed on http://mretreat.org Fox Creek Road Intersection. the National Register of Historic Places. The Kreienkamp Store is located at the intersection of Melrose and Ossenfort Roads, on the western portion of this 21 Old Pond School & Park Bouquet Road was named after Corporal Michael Bouquet, who served in the roadway, where the Town of Melrose was once located. Union Army during the Civil War. He was a German immigrant and, after the 17123 Manchester Road, Wildwood, MO 63040, #: (636) 458-0440 war, he married his neighbor, Fredericka Ossenfort. Bouquet was appointed http://www.cityofwildwood.com The east and west portions of Melrose Road today are separated by State Route the Melrose Postmaster in 1894. 100 (Manchester Road). Melrose Road provides access through the City with an east/west orientation, with the eastern portion connecting State Route 100 22 Pond Athletic Association Bouquet Road has not undergone much change over the years. It serves a and State Route 109, near the entrance of Rockwoods Reservation, a 1,843 acre 1725 Pond Road, Wildwood, MO 63038, #: (636) 458-9627 very low-density residential land use pattern. Several of the lots along its property owned and operated by the Missouri Department of Conservation http://pondathletic.com length are 40+, 50+, 75+, and even 100+ acres in size. A few historic structures as a forest and wildlife conservation area. A portion of the roadway travels still remain along this scenic by-way, including the Jacob Kreienkamp Farm- through the reservation as well. The western portion connects State Route 100 23 Rock Hollow Trail stead, which was built in 1930, located near the northern end of Bouquet with State Route T, the main access road into the historic St. Albans Community. Road, and the Steffens House, circa 1900, located near its southern extent. 777 Ridge Road, Wildwood, MO 63021, #: (636) 458-0440 Melrose Road provides access to a low-density residential land use pattern. A http://www.cityofwildwood.com number of the existing properties along Melrose Road are listed on the City’s Historic Inventory. Several of these homes on the eastern portion date to the 1920s and were constructed as offices for the Glencoe Lime Company, which Sources: St. Louis County Records and Revenue Information: www.stlouisco.com • St. Louis County Parks and Recreation Department: www.stlouisco.com • Missouri Department of Conser- mined what is today Rockwoods Reservation. Near the intersection with vation Area Information: www.mdc.mo.gov • Wildwood, by Jo Beck, 2009 • Before It Was Wildwood: Roadside History of Western St. Louis County, Missouri, by Karen Fox, 2017 - Wildwood Allenton Road, also on the eastern portion of Melrose Road, is a log cabin from Historical Society, Wildwood, MO • City of Wildwood Historic Building Survey 2014-15 • Allenton Residents Look at What Remains, by Adam Allington, marketplace.org: https://www.mar- around 1890. In addition to the Town of Melrose on the western portion of this ketplace.org/2010/08/09/allenton-residents-look-what-remains • Oral history by Bebe Mackenzie, recorded by Pauline Masson, emissourian: http://www.emissourian.com/article_4af1e548- scenic by-way is the original Melrose School, built in 1871. This structure is a 7252-56c3-b75e-7e389eb5180b.html • About Allenton Missouri: Facts, Trivia and Useful Information and History of Allenton, TheRoute-66.com: https://www.theroute-66.com/allenton.html one-room school house, typical to others found in the area from this same era.