Kirkwood, MO

KIRKWOOD, A post village of St. Louis county, Bonhomme township, 13 miles from St. Louis, the county seat , situated on the Pacific Railroad. It contains three churches, viz. Presbyterian, Catholic, and Episcopalean, also an institution called the De Peres Scientific and Literary Academy, under the superintendence of Rev. E.S. Schenk.  Population 500.  (The Missouri State Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1860)