How Historic is Your Neighborhood?

There's plenty of history hidden in Chesterfield, if you just know were to look and the right questions to ask. 

A program from the Chesterfield Historic and Landmarks Preservation Committee (CHLPC) is hoping to help students discover if there was an Indian village, an old farmhouse or a cornfield where their backyards used to be. 

The committee is encouraging students of all ages to research their subdivisions and submit their findings. All participants will be awarded a certificate and recognized at a City Council meeting.

Here's five queries to help you get started:

1. Have any archaeological artifacts been found?
2. What was on the land in the late nineteenth century?
3. When was your subdivision or neighborhood built and who was the developer?
4. Can you find pictures from soon after the subdivision construction?
5. Who has lived in the subdivision the longest? Ask them what it was like.

You can find more suggestions at the city's website. When your finished, you can submit your research to CHLPC either by email attachment to Doscielo@aol.com or by mail at CHLPC, Chesterfield City Hall, 690 Chesterfield Parkway W., Chesterfield, MO 63017.