Search results
Results from the Health.Zone Content Network
Castlewood State Park is a public recreation area and Missouri state park occupying 1,818 acres (736 ha) which straddles the Meramec River in St. Louis County, Missouri.The most visited section of the state park lies on the north side of the Meramec; the park acreage on the south side of the river is accessed from Lone Elk County Park and includes the World Bird Sanctuary.
Oskar Kumpu (1889–1935), Finnish Olympic wrestler and Red Army officer, drowned while swimming in the Olonka River in the Soviet Union. Jiro Sato (1908–1934), Japanese tennis player, committed suicide in the Strait of Malacca on April 5, 1934. James Murray, (1901–1936), actor, found drowned in the Hudson River, possible suicide.
The Meramec River (/ ˈ m ɛr ɪ m æ k /), sometimes spelled Maramec River (the original US mapping spelled it Maramec but later changed it to Meramec), is one of the longest free-flowing waterways in the U.S. state of Missouri, draining 3,980 square miles (10,300 km 2) while wandering 218 miles (351 km) from headwaters southeast of Salem to where it empties into the Mississippi River near St ...
December 6, 1991. Meramec State Park is a public recreation area located near Sullivan, Missouri, about 60 miles from St. Louis, along the Meramec River. [4] The park has diverse ecosystems such as hardwood forests and glades. There are over 40 caves located throughout the park, the bedrock is dolomite.
Route 66 State Park. / 38.50639°N 90.59028°W / 38.50639; -90.59028. Route 66 State Park is a public recreation area located on the Meramec River at the site of the former town of Times Beach, Missouri. [5] The state park encompasses 419 acres (170 ha) one mile (1.6 km) east of Eureka .
Valley Park and Castlewood Park were developed as summer resorts. Castlewood Park is a short distance west on Big Bend. Castlewood Park became part of the Missouri State Park system. However, Valley Park began to boom with development. It had railroads, the Meramec River, and what even then were considered main roads.
A trip to Crown Reef Beach Resort and Waterpark in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, turned to horror when 4-year-old Demi Williams drowned in one of the resort’s pools, which had no lifeguards ...
Times Beach is a ghost town in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States, 17 miles (27 km) southwest of St. Louis and 2 miles (3 km) east of Eureka.Once home to more than two thousand people, the town was completely evacuated early in 1983 due to TCDD (a type of dioxin) contamination, formerly the largest civilian exposure to the compound in the history of the United States.