MANCHESTER AVENUE

5500 to 7000 IN DOGTOWN

• From: St. Louis Public Library on-line listings commpiled by Dr. Glen Holt and Thomas A. Pearson
  
  Entry on Manchester
  
  MANCHESTER AVENUE (E-W). Originally known as Fox Creek Road, this old state road was renamed Manchester early in the 19th century since it was the road to the St. Louis County town of that name. "Old Manchester Road," the original connecting link, is now Vandeventer. For a time in the late-19th century, "Old" and "New" Manchester Roads existed at the same time. The name Manchester, because of its assocaition with Manchester, England, always suggested commercial and industrial prosperity to those who adopted it in America.
  
  
• From: STREETS OF ST. LOUIS by William B. Magnan. Groton, Ct.: Right Press, Inc., 1994
  
  Parts of Old Manchester Road changed to Southwest and some to Columbia.