Editing Crystal City, Missouri (section)

==History==
Crystal City was originally called New Detroit.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_jefferson.html |title=Jefferson County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived) |publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri |accessdate=19 October 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624071321/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_jefferson.html |archivedate=24 June 2016 }}</ref> A post office called Crystal City has been in operation since 1872.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MO&county=Jefferson |title=Post Offices |publisher=Jim Forte Postal History |accessdate=19 October 2016 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019143136/http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MO&county=Jefferson |archivedate=19 October 2016 }}</ref> In the 1880s, [[PPG Industries|Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company]] opened a glass manufacturing plant, which is the origin of the city's name. Currently, the PPG plant property remains empty and undeveloped. It was purchased by Wings Enterprises in the mid-2000s with the intentions of constructing an [[iron ore]] [[smelter]] on the property. In the early 2000s, the state of Missouri forced [[Doe Run Company]] to purchase 160 homes in [[Herculaneum, Missouri|Herculaneum]] after it was found over 56% of children within a quarter-mile (0.4&nbsp;km) of the plant had high levels of [[lead]] in their [[blood]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.riverfronttimes.com/stlouis/smelterville/Content?oid=2454617|title=Smelterville|last=Garrison|first=Chad|date=January 16, 2008 |website=Riverfront times|access-date=September 9, 2018}}</ref> This prompted greater concern when Crystal City engaged in discussions over building a $1 billion dollar iron-ore smelter on the lands of the abandoned factory.