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Flora's
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Flora, a "free mulattress," lived here in a poteaux en terre (posts in earth) vertical log house built in 1766 and measuring 12 x 15 feet. According to a 1799 Spanish census there were 50 free mulattos who lived in St. Louis.

The site of Flora's house is on the left of this modern scene, which looks eastward toward the Mississippi River from the corner of Second and Cedar streets. The property to the right, now occupied by the buildings of the Crunden-Martin Manufacturing Company, would have been vacant land owned by Gabriel Cerre in 1804.