. Historical and interesting places of Saint Louis. Pierre Laclede Frenchman, to whomjointly with his associates,Maxent et the SpanishGovernment had granted amonopoly of the Indiantrade, in 1763 seeking a lo-cation for his trading post,chose the site now occupied^p-—--^-____^. by Saint Louis because of itsjg advantageous position, but I to Auguste Chouteau, then a I -^to ^^^ b^^^^^RS the honor of I ^H laying out the town and M erecting the first homes. Jp he being sent here for that ^™™^^^- purpose by Laclede with a company of men in the Spring of I76_|. Later Laclede (as he usu

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. Historical and interesting places of Saint Louis. Pierre Laclede Frenchman, to whomjointly with his associates,Maxent et the SpanishGovernment had granted amonopoly of the Indiantrade, in 1763 seeking a lo-cation for his trading post,chose the site now occupied^p-—--^-____^. by Saint Louis because of itsjg advantageous position, but I to Auguste Chouteau, then a I -^to ^^^ b^^^^^RS the honor of I ^H laying out the town and M erecting the first homes. Jp he being sent here for that ^™™^^^- purpose by Laclede with a company of men in the Spring of I76_|. Later Laclede (as he usually signed himself)landed at the foot of what is now A\^alnut Streetand named the post Saint Louis, in honor ofLouis XV, of France, and his patron saint. For many years Saint Louis was called PainCourt, a nick-name applied to it in derision, be-cause of the scarcity of bread, due to the disin-clination to farming among the French. In 1804,when Louisiana was ceded to the United States,there were only two American families in the whistoricalintere00head

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