Shortly after the American Civil War, Barret succeeded his cousin, Colonel J. Richard Barret, to become president of the St. Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Association, a group that organized many large fairs held on the lands that would become Fairground Park in St. Louis.
At the corner of Grand Boulevard and Natural Bridge Avenue, the facade of the old bear pits still stands at the park's main entrance.
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The neighborhood’s boundaries are defined as Glasgow Avenue on the east, west and North Florissant Avenues on the north, Warne on the west, and Fairground Park and Natural Bridge Avenue on the south.