Explore Mill Creek Valley's rich history at Missouri History Museum's powerful exhibit opening Nov 15, 2025. Dive into the ...

Black Metropolis, opening this weekend, visitors can journey through time to a St. Louis neighborhood that was thriving before urban renewal tried to wipe it off the map. “Mill Creek was the Harlem of ...

Pharmacist P.J. Robinson poses at his Owl Drug Store in Mill Creek. He owned 10 pharmacies in Mill Creek and Kinloch. The ...

For decades, Mill Creek Valley was dismissed in headlines as a “slum.” In truth, it was a cultural and civic powerhouse—a place where jazz, blues, and ragtime thrived. Black-owned businesses, churches ...

ST. LOUIS — The Missouri History Museum is reviving a long-forgotten St. Louis neighborhood with its upcoming exhibit, Mill Creek: Black Metropolis, opening Nov. 15, and running through July 12, 2026.

Mill Creek was a vibrant Black community in St. Louis during segregation. The neighborhood spanned 4,500 acres and was home to 5,000 families. However, in 1959, it was destroyed for urban renewal. Now ...

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When author Emily Bain Murphy visited the Missouri History Museum’s 1904 World’s Fair exhibit in April 2023, she immediately knew she had her next story. “It was the very last weekend before they ...

The Smithsonian Institution says the Museum of Transportation in Kirkwood has one of the largest and best collections of ...

ST. LOUIS • When the Missouri History Museum began talking to former Mayor Freeman Bosley Jr. about potentially buying a one-acre property he owned, Bosley was in a unique position. He was a member of ...