Entry 94: Holiday Inn Six Flags: Historic Hospitality Near St. Louis with 200 Years of Travel Legacy
Holiday Inn Six Flags 4901 Six Flags Rd, Eureka, MO 63025 The site where the Holiday Inn by Six Flags stands today has been a stopping point for travelers for nearly 200 years. It all started in the early 1800s when Native Americans dug deep springs on the land, creating a reliable water source. As stagecoach travel grew, the spot became known as the Deep Springs Stage Stop, a welcome rest area for travelers leaving St. Louis, offering them their first "good water" after the city. In the mid-1800s, as St. Louis expanded, the county bought the land to build a farm to help people moving west. They hired Irish stonemasons to construct a large rock building, which was meant to be a dormitory. This building still stands today and is now the heart of the Holiday Inn, housing the Hay Market Restaurant, banquet rooms, and convention facilities inside its thick limestone walls. During the Civil War, the farm project was put on hold, but in 1894, a St. Louis veterinarian name...