Affton Missouri in Zip Code 63123

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Affton Missouri

Affton Missouri 63123

Police (non-emergency): 314-615-4266
Fire (non-emergency): 636-353-7676
Chamber of Commerce: 314-849-6499

Affton Missouri is an unincorporated community located in South St Louis County. The population of Affton in 2010 was 20,307. Much of what is Affton today was originally part of a 6,000 acre Spanish land grant that had been given to a Frenchman by the name of Gregoire Sarpy before 1803 when the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory. Sarpy in turn sold 3,000 acres of this land grant that was west of the River des Peres to a Scotchman, Kenneth MacKenzie, who came to the United States in the 1820's and had become quite wealthy being a fur trader. On this land he developed a large plantation. Eventually, MacKenzie divided his plantation into 40 acre tracts which were sold in the 1840's. Many of those tracts became "truck gardens" which were farms where the farmer loaded his produce into his truck and drove into the City of St Louis and then sold the produce from the back of those trucks to the residents of the city. Those truck gardens later became the beginning of the subdivisions of today.

The name of "Affton" is from one of the early residents of the area, Johann Aff. He owned one of those truck gardens, as well as a general store that he opened in 1872 in the "Ten Mile House" on Gravois. Johann Aff was also the first postmaster for the area and for mailing purposes, the area was called "Aff's town" which eventually became "Affton". Several streets that run through Affton bear the names of other early residents of Affton. MacKenzie Road, Shepperd, Weber Road, Vasel, Tesson Ferry Road, Stafford are some examples.

Today, Affton is home to several private and public High Schools such as Cor Jesu Academy, Lutheran High School South, Bayless High School and Affton High School. Affton has several of St Louis' popular attractions. One of them is Grant's Farm which is the Busch family (of Anheuser-Busch beer fame) estate and the location of the log cabin, Hardscrabble, that Ulysses S. Grant built for he and his wife Julia Dent. Julia Dent's family home, White Haven, is another attraction and is located just across from Grant's Farm in the Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site.

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Bayless High School	Cor Jesu Academy High School	Cor Jesu Academy High School	Ohlendorf Park in Affton Missouri
Ohlendorf Park in Affton Missouri	Historic Landmark -"Hardscrabble"- Grant's log home, built 1856	Historic Landmark-White Haven, Julia Dent's home, built 1818