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Checkerboard Square
Checkerboard Square, St. Louis, Missouri
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William Danforth built a feed company and took his trademark from a family he had seen where the mother dressed every child in the same red and white checked cloth so she could find them in a crowd. He put the checkerboard on the sacks, then on the buildings, then renamed the street. The company sold pet food to most of the country from a square named after a pattern from a gingham dress.
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Location: historic site
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