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Valley Park booms on plate glass and is wiped out by the Meramec
Valley Park, Missouri
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The St. Louis Plate Glass Company opened here in 1907 with 500 workers, and a stove works, lumber yard, bottling plant and cigar factory followed. Population hit about 3,500 and 88 trains a day stopped in town. In August 1915 a record Meramec River flood destroyed or damaged nearly all of it. The factories never rebuilt and the town fell back to roughly 500 permanent residents.
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