Creve Coeur Park

Missouri · United States · House

The name is French for broken heart. A chief's daughter is said to have gone off the cliff at the park entrance, and the water still falls in drops like.

Creve Coeur is French for broken heart, and the park outside St Louis, Missouri takes its name from the story rather than the other way round.

In the version told locally, the beautiful daughter of an Indian chief married a strong warrior in the late 1800s. They were deeply in love, but he had to leave with the hunting parties, which in that country meant six months away at a minimum. When the party finally returned, he was not with it. He had died on the way home.

She climbed the cliff at what is now the entrance to the park and went off it into the water below.

The detail everyone repeats concerns the waterfall there. It does not run. It falls in separate small drops, which local tradition reads as tears. At night, and on a still day, visitors describe hearing a woman crying somewhere near the cliff. The park is public and busy, and the fall is easy to find, which is one reason this particular legend has stayed in circulation for well over a century.

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Where is Creve Coeur Park located?

Creve Coeur Park is in Missouri, United States.