Kinloch, Missouri
| Kinloch, Missouri | |
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| City of Kinloch | |
Kinloch Park
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| Coordinates: 38°44′25″N 90°19′23″W / 38.74028°N 90.32306°WCoordinates: 38°44′25″N 90°19′23″W / 38.74028°N 90.32306°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Missouri |
| County | St. Louis |
| Founded | Nov 17th 1890 |
| Government | |
| • Type | Mayor–council government |
| • City Manager | Justine Blue |
| • Mayor | Darren Small |
| • Police Chief | Col Kieth Williams |
| • Fire Chief | Timothy Rhodus |
| Area | |
| • Total | 0.73 sq mi (1.89 km2) |
| • Land | 0.73 sq mi (1.89 km2) |
| • Water | 0 sq mi (0 km2) |
| Elevation | 607 ft (185 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 1,000 |
| • Estimate (2012) | 499 |
| • Density | 408.2/sq mi (157.6/km2) |
| Time zone | Central (CST) (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| FIPS code | 29-38972 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0756251 |
| Website | City of Kinloch |
Kinloch is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States. The population was 299 as of the 2010 census.
The oldest African-American community to be incorporated in Missouri, Kinloch was home to a vibrant and flourishing black community for much of the 19th and 20th century. It began to decline in the 1980s, when the City of St. Louis began to buy up property due to an FAA noise-abatement program for nearby Lambert-St. Louis International Airport. Between 1990 and 2000, Kinloch lost more than 80 percent of its population, and the city became an increasingly violent and dangerous place to live. In recent years, there have been efforts to rebuild the city.
The current city of Kinloch grew up around Kinloch Park, a commuter suburb first developed in the 1890s.
A Mrs. "B" and her husband are thought to be the first black family to purchase a home in Kinloch Park. As soon as the neighbors discovered the new owners were black they sold their properties, and new sales to permanent white residents of south Kinloch Park ceased. In a few years, more than 30 black families had bought into a six-block area that became called South Kinloch Park.
Kinloch, as an African American community, developed out of a land purchase model similar to the Brooklyn, Illinois model. Since it was not legal to sell directly to blacks, the Olive Street Terrace Realty Corporation sold the parcels to whites for an average price of $150. The new owners then sold the plots to blacks for an average of $350. This allowed the company to use the white people's loans as collateral for further bank notes. To get white investors, the company circulated testimonials of investors who paid in $50 towards a parcel and received returns of $500 to $1000 on the investment. In an advertisement to the Argus, Olive Street Terrace Realty said, "The good colored people of South Kinloch Park have built themselves a little city of which they have a right to be proud. More than a hundred homes, three churches and a splendid public school have been built in a few years."
The Kinloch Park development had a horse-racing facility called Kinloch Track. When Missouri outlawed the sport, the grounds were taken over by Kinloch Airfield, which saw some historic flights. The Aero Club of Saint Louis hosted the first international air meet in October 1910, where Theodore Roosevelt became the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane. Pilot Arch Hoxsey flew the president around for over three minutes in one of the Wright Brothers' six planes they had brought in.
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