Pagedale

History

The area originally was farmland, but it did have an interesting history with several pockets of significant Greek and African-American residents. Because St. Vincent's mental hospital was located just north of St. Charles Rock Road, a streetcar line was constructed in the late 1800s from just south of Olive Street Road in University City north on the east side of Ferguson Avenue through what is now Pagedale to meet the electric interurban line to Saint Charles at the Rock Road. The south end of the line eventually joined with the Creve Coeur Lake streetcar line which ran on Vernon Avenue (but later was relocated a block further south to run behind a new subdivision). That transportation opened up the area to housing. South of Pagedale, at Page and Ferguson, was Hazel Hill, which eventually became the reason for the Lincoln School which became part of the Normandy School District. Though long forgotten as a name, the Hazel Hill community still exists and the Lincoln building is still standing. When Pagedale was incorporated, the northern end went beyond the Rock Road up Hoke Avenue, which later was renamed Ferguson though it didn't line up with Ferguson. In 1954 a new housing subdivision was built at Ferguson and North Market Street. That subdivision, named Engelholm Gardens, a long forgotten name also, still stands, looking exactly as it did in 1954. In 2001, a new $1 million Pagedale City Hall and Police Facility was built. It included an 8,000-square-foot space to house a local court facility. In November 2015, some residents filed a civil rights class action lawsuit against the city of Pagedale for overly aggressive ticketing of residential code enforcement as a "revenue generating machine".

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land.

Race & ethnicity

Most-observed species

• Northern Cardinal

  Cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  53,164
• American Robin

  Turdus migratorius Linnaeus, 1766 · Aves
  46,452
• Mourning Dove

  Zenaida macroura (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  39,901
• Blue Jay

  Cyanocitta cristata (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  36,783
• European Starling

  Sturnus vulgaris Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  35,682
• Downy Woodpecker

  Dryobates pubescens (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  33,253
• House Finch

  Haemorhous mexicanus (P.L.Statius Müller, 1776) · Aves
  30,930
• American Goldfinch

  Spinus tristis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  29,022

Most recent

• M 2.57 — 2024-09-19
  1 km S of Old Monroe, Missouri
• M 2.81 — 2024-03-28
  1 km NNE of Germantown, Illinois
• M 2.84 — 2022-04-29
  1 km SSW of Peerless Park, Missouri
• M 2.57 — 2019-09-11
  6 km NNE of Bonne Terre, Missouri
• M 3.12 — 2017-07-01
  9 km SSE of Mulberry Grove, Illinois
• M 2.58 — 2017-06-06
  8 km ENE of Bonne Terre, Missouri