Greenwood Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Hillsdale, Missouri.Greenwood Cemetery was the first non-denominational commercial cemetery for African-Americans in the St. Louis area. Established in 1874 by Herman Krueger, Greenwood has approximately 6,000 marked graves but is thought to contain up to 50,000 burials. In 1890 the cemetery was sold to Krueger’s son-in-law, Adolph Foelsch; the Foelsch family owned and operated the cemetery, including manufacturing concrete tombstones, until 1981. Those buried at Greenwood include former slaves, war veterans, members of fraternal organizations, artists, laborers and middle class African-Americans, as well as a number of famous and prominent African-Americans from St. Louis, including Dred Scott’s wife Harriet Robinson Scott, folk hero Lee Shelton (“Stagger” Lee), musician Walter Davis and civil rights leader Charlton Tandy. Many of the people buried at Greenwood were originally from southern states and had participated in the Great Migration north. Funerals were numerous in Greenwood in the mid-twentieth century, but with desegregation, the cemetery saw a decline in use. In the 1980s it began to go derelict. It permanently closed in the 1990s and continued to stand abandoned for most of a decade. In 1999, the nonprofit group Friends of Greenwood Cemetery, Inc. was formed for the purpose of restoring and preserving the site as a historic park. Eventually the group gained ownership of the cemetery.Greenwood was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004Notable intermentsWalter Davis (1910–1963), Blues musicianGrant Green (1935–1979), jazz musicianHarriet Scott (1815–1876), wife of Dred ScottLee Shelton (1865–1912), American folk figure
Normandy High School is a public high school located in Wellston, St. Louis County, Missouri that is part of the Normandy School District.HistoryThe following information was provided by Wayne Brasler, Normandy School District historian who has written numerous research papers on the District and who produces and publishes the Normandy High School Alumni newspaper. Mr. Brasler has an extensive collection of Normandy School District histories, publications and Normandy High School newspapers and yearbooks and all the information here comes from those documents. Upon his death, the entire collection will go to the Missouri Historical Society. Normandy started a high school at Lincoln Elementary School in Pagedale early its history but it did not last beyond a year. Then in 1907 a high school was started in the former Washington Elementary School on St. Charles Rock Road but only one class graduated when the school closed in 1911. In 1923, the district again opened a school, this time on property purchased from the Eden Theological Seminary. For its first year, the high school shared the ornate four-story main building with Eden students. Plans by William B. Ittner for a California-style collegiate campus with a central quadrangle were implemented shortly after. The school opened as a combined junior high school and senior high school, with six levels from 7th through 12th grades. Plans also called for adding the first two years of college. This plan was realized in a way forty years later with the opening of the Normandy Residence Center, which became the University of Missouri-St. Louis. A vocational building and gymnasium, also designed by Ittner, were added in 1929. The vocational building remains as West Hall. The gymnasium, with curved, amphitheater-style seating, was renowned in the area for its architecture.
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