The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗In 1852, Edmund P. Grant bought about 480 acres (1.9 km2) of federal land grants around what was to become Belle Rive. Grant was a wealthy land speculator from Montgomery County, Tennessee. At that time there was a corporation in Mt. Vernon that was attempting to build a rail line from St. Louis to Evansville, Indiana. It seems likely that Grant was buying land in anticipation of the construction of the railroad, intending to build a town. This early attempt at building a railroad failed during a recession in the mid-1850s. Grant died in 1863, after being chased from Mt. Vernon by a mob objecting to his Confederate politics.
Belle Rive was founded in 1871, coinciding with the opening of the St. Louis & Southeastern Railroad.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Start Belle Rive’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Belle Rive’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Belle Rive, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Belle Rive is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Belle Rive has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is C. H. Judd House in Moores Prairie, 5.7 miles away.
Belle Rive and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.