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Military Personnel Records Center. Coordinates: 38.7736°N 90.2307°W. The Military Personnel Records Center (NPRC-MPR) is a branch of the National Personnel Records Center and is the repository of over 56 million military personnel records and medical records pertaining to retired, discharged, and deceased veterans of the U.S. armed forces .
The National Personnel Records Center (s) (NPRC) is an agency of the National Archives and Records Administration, created in 1966. It is part of the United States National Archives federal records center system and is divided into two large Federal Records Centers located in St. Louis, Missouri, and Valmeyer, Illinois.
The Jefferson Barracks Military Post is located on the Mississippi River at Lemay, Missouri, south of St. Louis. It was an important and active U.S. Army installation from 1826 through 1946. It is the oldest operating U.S. military installation west of the Mississippi River, and it is now used as a base for the Army and Air National Guard .
William Clark. William Clark (August 1, 1770 – September 1, 1838) was an American explorer, soldier, Indian agent, and territorial governor. [ 1] A native of Virginia, he grew up in pre-statehood Kentucky before later settling in what became the state of Missouri . Along with Meriwether Lewis, Clark led the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804 ...
Charles M. Price Support Center was a United States Army base located in Granite City, Illinois, across the Mississippi River directly to the east of St. Louis. Originally selected as a site for a U.S. Army supply depot during World War I, it was not established until World War II as the Granite City Engineer Depot. The installation employed up ...
Henri de Tonti ( né Enrico Tonti; c. 1649 – September 1704), also spelled Henri de Tonty, was an Italian -born French military officer, explorer, and voyageur who assisted René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, with North American exploration and colonization from 1678 to 1686. [2] de Tonti was one of the first explorers to navigate and ...
The Demobilized Personnel Records Center (DPRC) was an installation of the United States Army which operated in St. Louis, Missouri, from 1945 to 1956.The facility was housed in the former Goodfellow ordnance plant in St. Louis and became the central repository for all service records of discharged (but originally not retired) service members of the United States Army.
In 1827, the United States War Department decided to replace a 22-year-old arsenal, Fort Belle Fontaine (located 15 miles (24 km) north of St. Louis on the bluffs above the Missouri River) with a larger facility to meet the needs of the rapidly growing military forces in the West. Lt. Martin Thomas selected a 37-acre (150,000 m 2) tract of land on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River and ...