This view across the Meramec River tooks toward the newly acquired Morton property from the farm side of the Arboretum. Bulletin, Jan-Feb. 19872, p. 29.
While a young merchant in St. Louis Shaw began buying enslaved persons in the 1820s. In 1850 Shaw owned nine and by 1853 eleven; 1860 census records list eight enslaved persons. As with the 1850 census, their names were not listed. Please see the historical timeline for more information.
