Editing Eureka, Missouri (section)

==History==
[[File:Missouri Route 109 - Eureka, Missouri.jpg|thumb|left|Missouri Route 109 entering Eureka.]]
The area's first known inhabitants were [[Shawnee]] [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]] on the banks of the [[Meramec River]]; [[Artifact (archaeology)|archaeological artifacts]] can still be found today as evidence of their past occupation of the area.<ref name=":0" />

The village of Eureka was platted in 1858<ref>{{cite book|author=Eaton, David Wolfe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RfAuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA360|title=How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named|publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri|year=1918|pages=360}}</ref> along the route of the [[Pacific Railroad]]. By 1890, the village consisted of about 100 homes. As railroad workers cleared the way for the track, they saw level land with little to clear and declared "[[Eureka (word)|Eureka!]]" which is Greek for "I've found it."<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=City History {{!}} Eureka, MO|url=https://www.eureka.mo.us/305/City-History|access-date=2020-08-22|website=www.eureka.mo.us}}</ref> Thus, Eureka was founded. In 1898, Eureka became home to the St. Louis Children's Industrial Farm, established to give children from St. Louis [[tenement]] neighborhoods a chance to experience life in a rural setting. It later became Camp Wyman (now part of Wyman Center) and is one of the oldest camps in the United States. The first [[Secondary school|high school]] class in Eureka was held in 1909. Eureka was incorporated as a fourth-class city on April 7, 1954.

Historically, Eureka was wholly within St. Louis County. In September 2019, the city's Board of Aldermen voted to annex two commercial lots—one of them a 72.5-acre tract that houses Kirkwood Materials West, a sand and gravel quarry, and the other a 75-acre field, both at highways 109 and FF—located just across the Meramec River in Jefferson County into the city. On October 1, 2019, the city voted to annex the under construction 549-home Windswept Farms subdivision just to the south into the city. Both annexations were voluntary by the owners.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Skaggs |first=Katelyn Mary |date=2019-10-12 |title=ICYMI: Annexations will cost county millions in lost revenue |url=https://www.myleaderpaper.com/news/icymi-annexations-will-cost-county-millions-in-lost-revenue/article_0c7ca98c-ead4-11e9-ab83-9bc45b8208ba.html |access-date=2023-09-02 |website=Leader Publications |language=en}}</ref>

===City of Allenton===
The railroad town of Allenton is a former community on [[U.S. Route 66]] located (now) at the junction of [[Interstate 44 in Missouri|Interstate 44]] and Business Loop 44 in western St. Louis County. In 1985, it was annexed by the city of Eureka. The town is currently rural, with adjacent farmland and forested [[Ozark]] ridges. This community was declared blighted by St. Louis County in 1973.