Black Metropolis, opening this weekend, visitors can journey through time to a St. Louis neighborhood that was thriving before urban renewal tried to wipe it off the map. “Mill Creek was the Harlem of ...
Pharmacist P.J. Robinson poses at his Owl Drug Store in Mill Creek. He owned 10 pharmacies in Mill Creek and Kinloch. The ...
ST. LOUIS — The Missouri History Museum is reviving a long-forgotten St. Louis neighborhood with its upcoming exhibit, Mill Creek: Black Metropolis, opening Nov. 15, and running through July 12, 2026.
Mill Creek was a vibrant Black community in St. Louis during segregation. The neighborhood spanned 4,500 acres and was home to 5,000 families. However, in 1959, it was destroyed for urban renewal. Now ...
This is the fourth in a series of stories about touring the Jefferson Valley. Seven miles east of the community of Sheridan is a cozy campsite on the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest. Mill Creek ...