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115TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 115-540
STE. GENEVIEVE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
ESTABLISHMENT ACT
FEBRUARY 2, 2018.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. BISHOP of Utah, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 2888]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 2888) to establish the Ste. Genevieve National Historic
Site in the State of Missouri, and for other purposes, having consid-
ered the same, report favorably thereon without amendment and
recommend that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 2888 is to establish the Ste. Genevieve Na-
tional Historic Site in the State of Missouri.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
Ste. Genevieve was founded circa 1750 by French Canadian set-
tlers, most of whom came from earlier settlements just across the
Mississippi in present-day Illinois. Though resources such as salt
and lead attracted settlers to the west side of the Mississippi, the
rich soil was the greatest draw. Ste. Genevieve was primarily an
agricultural settlement, with free and enslaved residents working
in the Grand Champ, or Common Field, a large area of privately
held, long agricultural lots surrounded by one large fence.'
After a series of floods, the most severe of which occurred in
1785, the town was moved inland approximately three miles, to
where it exists today. Residents continued to work the Common
INational Park Service. Ste. Genevieve Final Special Resource Study and Environmental As-
sessment. 2016. 3. Accessed November 9, 2017. https://parkplanning.nps.gov/
documentsList.cfm?projectlD=31496.
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