363 Road Trip 2023: Ste. Genevieve National Historical Park

Ben Franklin's World

Liz Covart

Earlyrepublic, History, Benfranklin, Society & Culture, Warforindependence, Earlyamericanrepublic, Earlyamericanhistory, Education, Colonialamerica, Americanrevolution, Ushistory, Benjaminfranklin

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🗓️ 1 August 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

About 620 miles north of New Orleans and 62 miles south of St. Louis, sits the town of Ste. Geneviéve, Missouri.

Established in 1750 by the French, Ste. Geneviéve reveals much about what it was like to establish a colony in the heartland of North America and what it was like for colonists to live so far removed from seats of imperial power.

Claire Casey, a National Park Service interpretative ranger at the Ste. Geneviéve National Historical Park, joins us to explore the early American history of Ste. Geneviéve.

This episode is originally posted as Episode 318.

Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/363

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0:00.0	You're listening to an AirWave Media Podcast.
0:04.1	Ben Franklin's world is a production of Colonial Williamsburg Innovation Studios.
0:17.0	Hello and welcome to episode 363 of Ben Franklin's world.
0:22.6	The podcast dedicated to helping you learn more about how the people and events of our early American past
0:28.6	have shaped the present-day world with a vent, and I'm your host, Liz Covart.
0:33.6	Summer time is upon us, and like many Americans, I'm headed out on vacation.
0:38.6	This year, Tim and I are celebrating our 15th wedding anniversary with a scuba diving trip to the Philippines.
0:44.6	Tim and I love to scuba dive as we get to come into contact with sea creatures like turtles,
0:49.6	which are my favorite sea creature, and we love the tranquility of just being underwater.
0:54.6	Being underwater we have found is the best way to disconnect. You can't take your cell phones with you.
0:59.6	So as I head out for a few weeks of rest and relaxation, I thought you might enjoy a short road trip series.
1:06.6	We did our last road trip in 2019 to great acclaim, you really enjoyed it, so I thought it was high time we do another road trip.
1:14.6	The connecting theme for our summer 2023 road trip is water.
1:18.6	Water was the easiest way to travel in early North America, because most of early in North America lacked roads.
1:25.6	And the roads that were available to early Americans often weren't any good.
1:29.6	They were built of dirt and lumber, and as such were bumpy, prone to mud and flooding,
1:34.6	and they often included obstacles right in their middle, such as tree stumps and rocks that people would have to navigate around.
1:40.6	So whenever possible, most early Americans turn to rivers, lakes, and oceans when they had to do some travel.
1:47.6	So the first stop on our three-stop summer 2023 road trip is the St. Genevieve National Historical Park in Missouri.
1:54.6	Located right along the Mississippi River, approximately 620 miles north of New Orleans and 62 miles south of St. Louis.
2:02.6	French colonists established the town of St. Genevieve as a trading and agricultural settlement around 1750.
2:09.6	The history of St. Genevieve reveals a lot about what it was like to establish a colony in the heartland of North America,
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