Sappington Foundation News Today

The Crestwood Board of Aldermen voted last month to grant an extension on a project to reconstruct a historic log cabin in a city park. The board voted 6-1 Nov....

The Sappington House Foundation is organizing the Jemima Sappington Society to find and connect families who are descendants of this pioneer mother of 17 children. Jemima and John Sappington are the original pioneers who settled in the Sappington/Crestwood area in 1806. Sappington Cousins related to John and Jemima Sappington will meet on Sunday, March 20...

To the editor: Thank you to Mr. Charles Harter who inquired in a Letter to the Editor about the relocation of the 1816 Joseph Sappington log house to Crestwood’s Sappington Park at 1015 S. Sappington Road, 63126, in the Nov. 25 edition of The Call.  The house will fit between the back of The Barn...

The Thomas Sappington Historic Site in Crestwood will get a new addition in the future after the Board of Aldermen voted last week in favor to help partially fund the move of a historical cabin to the city park.  Aldermen voted 6-1 Sept. 28 to help pay part of the costs to disassemble, move and...

Crestwood city officials have a once-in-a-lifetime decision to make next week: Whether or not to pay to move a 200-year-old log cabin from Affton to the city-owned Sappington House in Crestwood, doubling that museum’s number of Sappington houses from one to two. The museum already has its namesake, the brick Thomas Sappington House, and supporters...

The city of Crestwood is taking bids to see what it could cost to move a 200-year-old historic log cabin from Affton to the Historic Sappington House in Crestwood, doubling the number of Sappington houses at the site. The nonprofit Sappington Foundation has raised nearly $100,000 to move the house, but no one really knows what it could cost since a similar log cabin move has not been done that often. In March, aldermen approved a nonbinding letter of intent 5-0 to move the cabin after new owner...