Posted 11/6/2026 23:07 (#11796916 - in reply to #11796382) Subject: RE: Mission Accomplished – As Expected, Fuel Prices Begin Dropping
S Illinois
I think you maybe mistaken. St Louis was a strong port town in the mid 1800’s but it didn’t take off as a manufacturing/economic powerhouse until after the Eads bridge over the Mississippi was finished in the early 1870’s.
Edit: And even then it wasn’t anywhere near the top economic city in the US.. Its economic heyday was between the last 20 years of the 1800’s and first 30 of the 1900’s.
Mission Accomplished – As Expected, Fuel Prices Begin Dropping
