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New France - The OTHER Colonial America
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Happening Here

  • 2013 Home School Activities

  • Colonial Militia Day Camp & the Battle for Fort San Carlos -June 3-7

  • Saturday, June 22, 2013, 1-3PM- Meet Rwandan, Valens Hubizimana, and hear him speak about post-genocide Rwanda. This talk is FREE. We hope that you will also choose to visit the exhibit "This Community of Cultures - The African Experience in Colonial Ste. Genevieve" for which regular museum admission will be charged.

  • Teen Volunteer Interpreter's Day Camp - June 24-28

  • Strings & Things Day Camp - July 15-19

  • Saturday, August 24, 2013 – Vive La Musique Festival (in honor of Louis Bolduc Day)

  • Saturday September 7,2013 -Colonial History Day for Homeschooling Families

  • Saturday, October 26, 2013 – Boo! Silliage, French Colonial Zombie and Werewolf Festival

  • Saturday, November 23, 2013 – Ste. Catherine’s Day Dance and Taffy Pull for singles

  • Monthly June through October (exact details to be announced) Du Vin et du Fromage (Evening Wine and cheese tastings)

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Come, Explore, Imagine and Discover …A different time and culture…a different Colonial American experience. Come explore French colonial history as it was in this Missouri's first town. Colonial Ste. Genevieve was a Community of Cultures - French, American Indian, and African - where life depended on the Mississippi River, where empires clashed and combined, where producers of grain, lead, salt, indigo, tobacco, and pork like our Louis Bolduc prospered under the colonial regimes of both France and Spain until 1803 when Louisiana was purchased for a mere $15,000,000 by the United States. Come, explore, imagine and discover New France: The Other Colonial America at the Bolduc House Museum.


Zuts with Chainsaw

"Bonjour! I am Zuts, the Squirrel and Mascot of the House Bolduc! I am building this website as fast as I can, so please be patient with it as it is still under construction! We are shifting between formats to confuse the CATS as we make the site more friendly to new technology (even typewriters, I think)!!"