The pastoral scene of Chouteau's Pond when it was a refuge on the edge of town. La Petite Riviere (later called Mill Creek) was dammed for a flour mill shortly after St. Louis was ...

Clark says back in 1849 cemeteries had to be built to bury the nearly 5,000 people who died from a cholera outbreak. At one point, she says nearly 100 people were dying from it per day with no ...

This fear may have attributed Jefferson City's so-called cholera epidemic to a single steamship: the James Monroe. It was forced to dock at the city wharf on May 10, 1849, because many crew ...

The cholera epidemic of 1849 lasted six weeks and killed at least 500 people by May, according to the Texas State Historical Association. According to Promises to Keep, a history of the Sisters of ...

On Saturday, Sept. 29, 1849, The New York Tribune published on its front page a line chart tracking the deaths in New York City from the cholera epidemic that summer. It used techniques that would ...