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We would like to provide the residents of  Des Peres  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Des Peres Home page. The Des Peres Home page provides as much information as possible on Des Peres. Knowing Des Peres’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Des Peres’s Home page, you will also find Des Peres’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Des Peres has a population of 8654. 50.2% of Des Peres’s inhabitants are Male, and 49.8 are female. 73.7% of Des Peres is married and 95.9% own their own home. The Average Home price is $461,962, and the average rent is $1,969. Household median income in Des Peres is $173,672, and the individual median income is $67,456. Des Peres’s Ethnic is the following: White(94.6%), Multiple(2.2%), Asian(1.8%), Hispanic(1%), Black(0.9%), Other(0.3%), Native(0.2%).


The first inhabitants of Des Peres were the Cahokia, the Kaskaskia, the Mitchigamea, the Moingona, and the Otoe peoples. As well as the Missouria, and Osage, and Tamaroa peoples.The Osage Nation lived in the area around Des Peres. The Osage were members of the Dhegiha Sioux group of tribes. This group also included the Ponca tribe, Quapaw tribe, Kansas tribe, and Omaha tribe. Des Peres is thought to be the oldest white settlement in Missouri, founded about December 3, 1700 by a group of Kaskaskia Native Americans and French who had left the camp of the confederated Illinois tribes on the Illinois River.


The settlement was called Des Peres, French for "The Fathers," and meant to honor the French Jesuit missionaries who settled there. This settlement was at the mouth of River des Peres and it is thought the first settlers found this region unhealthful, so moved across the Mississippi River to a prairie about 25 miles from the mouth of the Kaskaskia River.People of European descent began settling in Des Peres in the 1800s.


By 1850, there were 75,000 people living in St. Louis. Des Peres was mainly settled by German immigrants and southerners from Virginia and the Carolinas who were drawn to the area by the farmland sold off by the United States government in 80-to-160-acre (32 to 65 ha) tracts.Des Peres got its name from the River des Peres whose tributaries, Deer Creek and Two Mile Creek, ran through the town.


The name Des Pères is a French term which means "of the Fathers". In 1834 a small church, the Des Peres Presbyterian Church, 38°37′22″N 90°25′12″W (Old Des Peres Church;Old Stone Church) is a historic church on Geyer Road in Frontenac, Missouri. It was started in 1834 and was added to the National Register in 1978. Mark Becker has been mayor of the city since 2018.


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