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Calendar No. 388
115TH CONGRESS SEAEREPORT
2d Session JSENATE 1 115-233
STE. GENEVIEVE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
ESTABLISHMENT ACT
APRIL 25, 2018.-Ordered to be printed
Ms. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 1335]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (S. 1335) to establish the Ste. Genevieve National
Historic Site in the State of Missouri, and for other purposes, hav-
ing considered the same, reports favorably thereon without amend-
ment and recommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of S. 1335 is to establish the Ste. Genevieve Na-
tional Historical Park in the State of Missouri.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
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 stands today. Residents continued to work the Common
Field, which though smaller, is still cultivated today. Ste. Gene-
vieve became a hub of trade. Following the Revolutionary War,
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