In 2012 the old shop was dismantled and moved to Faust Park’s Historic Village in St. Louis County. The Bank of Baden played a large role in farm financing in Spanish Lake, and many county farmers also had business interests in Baden. Home; History; The section of north St. Louis County, Missouri known as Spanish Lake takes its name from the nearby pond, which local tradition says served as a recreation area for the Spanish soldiers garrisoned at at the Spanish fort Don Carlos founded in 1764. The population was 19,650 at the 2010 census. Read the latest edition of the community association's quarterly newsletter: Spring 2019. Just a couple of years later, in 1876 he sold his original property and built the shop now known as Spanish Lake Blacksmith shop on the west side of Bellefontaine road, directly across the street from the first shop. The community is bounded by the Mississippi River to the east, the Missouri River to the north, Highway 367 to the west, and Interstate 270 to the south.[5]. A History of Spanish Lakes by John Van de Wouw Introduction. Timeline She is remembered and loved by the hundreds of farriers that came to her horseshoeing supply store. 27.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
As of the census[1] of 2000, there were 21,337 people, 8,381 households, and 5,673 families residing in the CDP. Spring 2019, Family Resource Fair at Twillman Elementary - May 4, 2019- 10:00 am - 1:00 pm, CHILD ID PROGRAM at Family Resource Fair - May 4, 2019- 10:00 am - 1:00 pm, Electronic Recycle Event at Trinity High School - June 15, 2019- 10:00 am - 1:00 pm, Document Shred Day at Twillman House - July 20, 2019- 9:00 am - 12:00 noon, Seniors Resource Fair at Bethany Peace Church, 11952 Bellefontaine Rd - September 28, 2019- 10:00 am - 1:00 pm, Association Membership and Volunteer Opportunities, Family Resource Fair at Twillman Elementary, Electronic Recycle Event at Trinity High School, Seniors Resource Fair at Bethany Peace Church, 11952 Bellefontaine Rd. Wilhelm had come to St. Louis to work as an iron worker on the Eads Bridge, the first permanent expansion bridge across the Mississippi. The median income for a household in the CDP was $37,410, and the median income for a family was $44,139. Males had a median income of $32,340 versus $26,644 for females. Much of the area was once the property of James De St. Vrain, a brother of the last Spanish lieutenant governor of Upper Louisiana. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.03% of the population. The 1970s saw the proliferation of dense apartment housing to Spanish Lake. The population density was 2,900.4 people per square mile (1,119.3/km2). Farmland was intensely cultivated, and small businesses and industries sprang up around the intersection of Bellefontaine, Parker, and Spanish Pond roads, forming the village’s center. Spanish Lake News. It was in this district, near Spanish Pond, that an old log cabin, said to have been used as a government building by Lieutenant Governor De Lassus De St. Vrain, the last Spanish executive to rule this section, was erected. Joe was an institution in Spanish Lake, a character fitting the image of the old-time blacksmith. African-Americans fleeing the failed Pruitt-Igoe public housing high rises in the city moved into the apartments via the Section 8 voucher system which immediately struck racial tensions in the area, particularly in local schools.
This era of the city's history is chronicled in the documentary Spanish Lake, although its depiction comes with some disagreement from community stakeholders. [4], The Spanish Lake community is located in the northeastern portion of St. Louis County. Jacob’s son Joseph followed his father as the blacksmith in Spanish Lake. Joe Wilhelm, in a 1960 newspaper interview, said that he walked up to his father’s anvil at the age of 11, and never left it. Lewis and Clark
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 7.5 square miles (19 km2), of which 7.4 square miles (19 km2) is land and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km2), or 2.13%, is water.
There will be a ribbon cutting when the old shop has been completely restored it will be opened to the public with demonstrations of the art of blacksmithing.
Marleen’s niece Charlene Mahood now manages the Farrier Supply business, which has a solid reputation with local farriers and supply dealers across the country. The new building has room to operate a large and diverse blacksmith shop, along with a full-scale Farrier supplies store. After moving from his native St. Louis to Tennessee in 1973 to attend horseshoeing school and practice the trade, Schantz returned and re-opened the Spanish Lake Blacksmith Shop. Fort Belle Fontaine Spanish Lake, originally called Spanish Pond until the late nineteenth century, was named after the Spanish troops who stayed there while building a fortified post for Spain in 1768. His father Chester Schantz, a carpenter, helped him fix up the shop, and reminisced that he and his brothers and sisters came to the same shop more than a half century before, driving their horse and wagon from their farm at Chain-of-Rocks, overlooking the Mississippi river by the present-day I-270 bridge. The average household size was 2.54 and the average family size was 3.09. About 10.2% of families and 11.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 18.4% of those under age 18 and 8.0% of those age 65 or over. [5], Spanish Lake prospered in the nineteenth century, as a crossroads farming village came into being. [3], Spanish Lake is located at 38°47′9″N 90°12′46″W / 38.78583°N 90.21278°W / 38.78583; -90.21278 (38.785849, -90.212879). Spanish Lake, originally called Spanish Pond until the late nineteenth century, was named after the Spanish troops who stayed there while building a fortified post for Spain in 1768. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 79.0 males. In 2004 Bob Schantz was elected by his peers to the International Horseshoeing Hall of Fame, located at Churchill Downs in Louisville, KY. Bob retired from blacksmithing in 2010 and sold that part of the business. Marleen and Bob continued to supply farriers with horseshoes and other supplies they needed. Census-designated place in Missouri, United States, "Race, Hispanic or Latino, Age, and Housing Occupancy: 2010 Census Redistricting Data (Public Law 94-171) Summary File (QT-PL), Spanish Lake CDP, Missouri", "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990", http://www.stlouisco.com/plan/Comp-Plans/Span-Lake/pages4to10.pdf, Spanish Lake Community Development Corporation, Municipalities of St. Louis County, Missouri, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spanish_Lake,_Missouri&oldid=973317668, Census-designated places in St. Louis County, Missouri, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles lacking reliable references from December 2017, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, ‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties, This page was last edited on 16 August 2020, at 15:28. The racial makeup of the CDP was 42.25% White, 54.79% African American, 0.20% Native American, 0.66% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 0.46% from other races, and 1.61% from two or more races.