Farming history of St. Louis County (Ozark: agricultural, farms, trees)

[U146]

http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FS...ouisMO1919.pdf

This is a 1919 soil survey and it's very interesting in what it depicts St. Louis County to be. Almost all of it was agricultural farmland except in the Southwestern part of the County where the Ozarks begin. All kinds of crops were grown here, from wheat and corn to vegetables like horseradish, sweet potatoes, potatoes, sorghum, soybeans. Tons of truck farms growing vegetables and fruit occupied the county and apparantly the heavily forested landscape that we know much of St. Louis County to be today at one time was rolling prairie without many trees back in 1919. Other products like brick and pottery were made from the soil. Very interesting historical read on St. Louis County almost 100 years ago.

[MUTGR]

Originally Posted by U146

http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FS...ouisMO1919.pdf

This is a 1919 soil survey and it's very interesting in what it depicts St. Louis County to be. Almost all of it was agricultural farmland except in the Southwestern part of the County where the Ozarks begin. All kinds of crops were grown here, from wheat and corn to vegetables like horseradish, sweet potatoes, potatoes, sorghum, soybeans. Tons of truck farms growing vegetables and fruit occupied the county and apparantly the heavily forested landscape that we know much of St. Louis County to be today at one time was rolling prairie without many trees back in 1919. Other products like brick and pottery were made from the soil. Very interesting historical read on St. Louis County almost 100 years ago.

I just read a little bit, but it is very interesting indeed.