The county seat of Ste. Genevieve County,Missouri, Ste. Genevieve is one of the oldest surviving French settlements inMissouri. She is the only place in the upper Mississippi Valley where several buildings of the pre-American period have survived. Today it is one of the newest National Parks....
Established on the west bank of the Mississippi River, the village of Ste. Genevieve was settled in the late 1740s about two miles south of its present location. The village was one of several important French communities forming a region known as theIllinois Country, part of the vast territo...