Hutawa’s 1850 Plan of the City of St. Louis, Mo.

Hutawa’s 1850 Plan of the City of St. Louis, Mo. was entered in the clerk’s office of the U.S. District Court of Missouri . . . 1842 by Julius Hutawa according to an Act of Congress respecting copyrights. Hutawa’s map included Steamboat Routes, 113 Points of Interest, and Notes which are reproduced below the map using the original spelling.

The map is available at the Missouri Historical Society

Georeferenced Map

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Steamboat Routes

Points Of Interest

Notes

NOTE. St. Louis, Mo. bounded North by Rocky branch, East by the, Mississippi, South by westline touching the Arsenal tract and West by a line along the westseide of Second Carondelet Avenue to an intersection with Chouteau Avenue, thence in a straight line the mouth of said Rocky branch, the point of beginning, as incorporated under the amending Ad of the General Assembly of the State of Missouri approved the 15th February 1841. All the numerous Additions to the City since the first establishment thereof; are correctly copied from the liles of the Recorder of the County of St Louis and connected, in taking as a basis the Original Survey’s filed in the U.S. Surveyors Office for the district of Illinois and. Missouri The first plan of St. Louis, under the name of St. Louis des Illinois, was made according to an order of government in 1764; the town was fortified by Lieutenant governor Francois de Crusat in 1180 and a plat thereof, shows all the ancient denominations of st reels. public squarsund fortifications. It calls for instance. Main street, Grande rue; Second St Rue del’lglice; Third St. Ruc des Granges; it calls Walnut St. Rue de In Tour: Marliet St. Rue de la place; Chesuut St. Rue Missouri, A; Pine St. Rue quicapou, B; Olive St. C, Locust St is called D; and soforth, lettering the Streets up to Oak, now Morgan Street which is designated with the letter // showing a Bustion, halfmoon, and u tower along the place of the present Cherry Street,(vix 1st Eddition of this map). Another plat of the torntt of St Louis showing Is boundaries usli red by the Court of Common Pleas, in November term of’ 1809 as bounded north by an cast and west line passing a point the northern peripherie of Roy’s tower, situated neur Hiddle Street on the bank of the Mississippi river_extending mest to the western line of the Common Field of St. Louis, and thence southward and cast to the Sugar louf. A Third plat of the City appeared under Bene Pant, comprising that purt of the City which mas chartered® the 9th December 1822 bounded by Seventh Street by an east line through the northern side of Roy’s tower, the middle of main channel of the Mississippi River and a west line passing the bridge on Second Street over Chouteau Mill Creek All these maps mere of little use to the Public in generul, until “” counceled map of the City appeared in 1840 our First Eddition By constructing the present map, the 7th Eddion, all the above plans and Diagrams have been taken as a foundation and thayand the most accurat general net of the Spanish Surveys have given the test lines whereinto the numerous additions to our City have been platted and connected with the greatest care – tested particularly by the latest Surveys – The Population of St Louis mas in the Year 1810, 1600 – 1820, 4598 – 1830, 6694 – 1840, 16469 in 1850 near 70,000.