๐บ๐ธ Cheltenham is a neighbourhood of St. Louis, Missouri. It is bound by Forest Park on the north, Macklind on the east, Manchester Avenue on the south, and Hampton Avenue on the west. Businesses located in Cheltenham include the St. Louis Community College at Forest Park, which is built on the site of the former Forest Park Highlands amusement park, as well as The Green Shag Market vintage/antique mall. It is also the former home of FOX-affiliate KTVI, as well as the St. Louis Arena. Cheltenham once covered the Clayton-Tamm neighbourhood.
History In October, 1856, Icarians, led by Frenchman Etienne Cabet, settled in St. Louis, Missouri. The Icarians were a 19th-century French utopian movement which had established a number of egalitarian communes in the United States.
The Icarians led by Cabet were dissident Icarians from Nauvoo, Illinois. These dissidents left in three different groups on October 15, 22, and 30. Cabet left Nauvoo with the final group on October 30, 1856. Cabet and his 180 loyal followers settled in "New Bremen" in the German section of St. Louis. Cabet had a stroke and died on November 8, 1856. Mercadier became the community's new president. The situation in St. Louis was not ideal and the group had lost a number of dissatisfied members.
On February 15, 1858, the remaining 151 Icarians had chosen a site west of St. Louis and settled on a few hundred acres in Cheltenham. They purchased the land for $25,000 at 6% interest with a $500 down-payment. Here they established workshops of tailors, joiners, wheelwrights, blacksmiths, painters, and shoemakers. The Cheltenham commune published a journal and a number of books, and it maintained in Paris, France, 'the Bureau' which printed and circulated brochures across France proclaiming the success of the commune. Schools were opened for the boys and girls, and a "salle d'asile" - a sort of kindergarten - was opened for the smallest children. The revising of the community's constitution, however, proved to be problematic.
Success of the community was not to be realized. Two radical distinct parties developed, where the majority adhered faithfully to the ideas entertained by the community's deceased founder Etienne Cabet, and believed in investing very large if not absolutely dictatorial authority in some chosen leader called a "Gรฉrance" or "Gรฉrant unique", who would direct the moral and material affairs of the community. The minority, however, who were led by a man named Vogel, a cap maker from Comar, France, were unalterably opposed to such an undemocratic system of government. Vogel and the dissidents would not accept compromise, and the General Assembly sessions of 1858 and 1859 were stormy. Vogel was accused by Mercadier of insulting Cabet's memory by insisting on a "parliamentary government". On February 17, 1859, the majority of the General Assembly, backing Mercadier, voted to reenact what they referred to as the "Engagement of October 13, 1856" which were the strict pledges that Cabet had demanded of his followers before leaving Navoo, Illinois. This pledge included a ban on smoking and drinking. For Vogel and the dissidents, this ban was deemed intolerable. Differences of opinion degenerated into party strife; and the vanquished minority, numbering forty-two persons, left the community. The loss of Vogel and the dissidents caused a serious problem. Of those who left, many were the most skillful craftsmen, and the loss was irreparable. Furthermore, Vogel and his supporters took with them $188 in cash, $588 in IOUs, and $1,800 in clothing and tools. The depleted society struggled heroically for five years longer in spite of a series of events which otherwise would have brought them down. By January 1864 with Arsene Sauva as president, there were 8 "citoyens", 7 "citoyennes", and some children left in Cheltenham. With this internal strife, the loss of most of its members, young men leaving to fight on the Union side in the American Civil War, and growing debt, the remaining members of the colony eventually agreed at their last General Assembly to disband the community. The keys to the property were handed over to its original owner, Thomas Allen, in 1864. The Louis Gillet and Arsene Sauva families later joined the Icarian Community in Adams County, Iowa.
Demographics In 2020 Cheltenham's population was 65.2% White, 8.4% Black, 0.2% Native American, 17.9% Asian, 7.1% Two or More Races, and 1.3% Some Other Race. 5.4% of the population was of Hispanic or Latino origin.
Cheltenham has a population of over 1,260 people. Cheltenham also forms part of the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area which has a population of over 2,787,701 people. Cheltenham is situated near St. Louis.
Twin Towns, Sister Cities Cheltenham has links with:
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Cheltenham, England ๐บ๐ธ Cheltenham, USA ๐จ๐ฆ Cheltenham, Canada ๐ณ๐ฟ Cheltenham, New Zealand ๐ฆ๐บ Cheltenham, Australia ๐ฆ๐บ Cheltenham, Australia๐บ๐ธ Woodbridge 38.633
๐บ๐ธ Harrisonville 38.65
๐ต๐น Angra do Heroรญsmo 38.65
๐บ๐ธ Chesterfield 38.65
๐ฎ๐น Vibo Valentia 38.667
๐บ๐ธ Carmichael 38.619
๐บ๐ธ Rancho Cordova 38.583
๐บ๐ธ Sacramento 38.582
๐บ๐ธ West Sacramento 38.567
๐บ๐ธ Jefferson City 38.567
๐บ๐ธ Granite City -90.117
๐บ๐ธ New Orleans -90.077
๐บ๐ธ Belleville -89.984
๐บ๐ธ Florissant -90.317
๐บ๐ธ Amite City -90.5
๐ฒ๐ฝ Campeche City -90.517
๐ฒ๐ฝ San Francisco de Campeche -90.522
Locations Near: Cheltenham -90.2817,38.6267
๐บ๐ธ St. Louis -90.183,38.617 d: 8.6
๐บ๐ธ Florissant -90.317,38.783 d: 17.7
๐บ๐ธ Granite City -90.117,38.717 d: 17.5
๐บ๐ธ Arnold -90.367,38.417 d: 24.5
๐บ๐ธ Chesterfield -90.55,38.65 d: 23.4
๐บ๐ธ Belleville -89.984,38.52 d: 28.5
๐บ๐ธ O'Fallon -89.916,38.596 d: 32
๐บ๐ธ Edwardsville -89.95,38.8 d: 34.6
Antipodal to: Cheltenham 89.718,-38.627
๐ฆ๐บ Bunbury 115.637,-33.327 d: 17618.3
๐ฆ๐บ Mandurah 115.721,-32.529 d: 17577
๐ฆ๐บ Rockingham 115.717,-32.267 d: 17565.6
๐ฆ๐บ City of Cockburn 115.833,-32.167 d: 17551.1
๐ฆ๐บ Vincent 115.834,-31.936 d: 17540.4
๐ฆ๐บ Wanneroo 115.803,-31.747 d: 17534.2
๐ฆ๐บ Perth 115.857,-31.953 d: 17539.2
๐ฆ๐บ Guildford 115.973,-31.9 d: 17526.8