The Jefferson Barracks Military Post, located on the Mississippi River at Lemay, Missouri, which is just south of St. Louis, Missouri. It was an important and highly active U.S. Army installation, from 1826 through 1946. It is the oldest operating US Military Installation west of the Mississippi River, and it is now used as a base for the Army and Air National Guard.
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