Pop-Up Collections Displays: St. Louis in 1776

While delegates in Philadelphia were declaring a new nation into existence in 1776, a very different story was unfolding far to the west. As a small French village barely a dozen years old, St. Louis began its quiet rise to regional power. This pop-up display explores St. Louis from its founding in 1764 through the year of American Independence, revealing how this frontier settlement became an unexpected player in the Revolutionary era.