Ingrams August 2023

DESTINATION MISSOURI MARKET TIDBITS

• The oldest surviving business in Missouri is Schaeffer’s Specialized Lubricants in St. Louis. It began selling greases and oils for wagon trains and steamboats in 1839.

watch the U.S. made the Louisiana Purchase, which included the Missouri we know today.

• The state’s estimated population in 2022 was just shy of 6.22 million.

• Health care is big here; research hospitals and medi- cal centers account for half of the 10 largest employ- ers in the state. A sixth, Washington University in St. Louis, operates its own academic medical campus.

• St. Genevieve, named for the patron saint of Paris, became the first European settlement in Missouri in about 1735. It’s in a county of the same name on the banks of the Mississippi River, about an hour south of present-day St. Louis. • Jefferson City, the state capital, is named for the nation’s third president, Thomas Jefferson, on whose

• George Washington Carver, the famed scientist, was born into slavery in Missouri, and William Wells Brown of St. Louis, an escaped slave, was America’s first black novelist.

CONGRATULATIONS TO BOB DUNN ON HIS RETIREMENT AFTER 36 YEARS OF DEDICATION TO JE DUNN CONSTRUCTION AND THE COMMUNITIES WE SERVE.

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