A Walking Tour of Ulysses Grant’s Soulard

September 18, 2016

Hosted by Missouri Humanities, Landmarks Association of St. Louis and the U. S. Grant Trail™ Initiative of Missouri’s Civil War Heritage Foundation

Old St. Louis County Courthouse (Missouri Humanities)

The Missouri Humanities Council is sponsoring a walking tour of Ulysses Grant’s Soulard, as part of the Pulitzer Foundation’s Campfires Initiative that commemorates the founding of the Pulitzer Prize one hundred years ago. The tour highlights the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Ulysses Grant by Professor William S. McFeely, and some of the events and places in St. Louis that are noted in McFeely’s book.

Ulysses Grant lived in St. Louis and the St. Louis suburbs from 1854 to 1860, because he married Julia Dent, daughter of a St. Louis County landowner. The legacy of Grant’s St. Louis years includes the Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site off Gravois Road in Sappington, and Anheuser-Busch Inbev’s famed family attraction, “Grant’s Farm.” Grant and Julia and their three children lived in the Soulard neighborhood during the year 1859.