Rosati is an unincorporated community in northeast
Phelps County,
Missouri
Missouri (''see #Etymology and pronunciation, pronunciation'') is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area, 21st in land area, it border ...
, United States. The community is adjacent to the Phelps-
Crawford county line on
Missouri Route KK four miles (6 km) east of
St. James. This road is also the former
U.S. Highway 66. The
St. Louis–San Francisco Railway
The St. Louis–San Francisco Railway , commonly known as the "Frisco", was a railroad that operated in the Midwest and South Central United States from 1876 to November 21, 1980. At the end of 1970, it operated of road on of track, not includ ...
passes through the community.
Variant names were "Knobview" and "Spading".
The present namesake is the first bishop of the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Louis
The Archdiocese of St. Louis () is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or archdiocese, of the Catholic Church in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Missouri.
As of November 2024, the archdiocese is led by Archbishop Mitchell Thomas Rozan ...
, the Italian-born
Joseph Rosati
Joseph Rosati, CM (30 January 1789 – 25 September 1843) was an Italian-born Catholic missionary to the United States who served as the first bishop of the Diocese of Saint Louis in the Missouri Territory from 1826 to 1843. He built the first ...
.
The area is part of Missouri's grape-growing region and Rosati is well known for its wines.
The first Italian immigrants attempted to plant grape varieties from
Italy
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, with no success, and instead grew
Concord grape
The Concord grape is a cultivar derived from the grape species ''Vitis labrusca'' (also known as fox grape) that are used as table grapes, wine grapes and juice grapes. They are often used to make grape jelly, grape juice, grape pies, grape- ...
s, used for making juice. In the 1970s, local growers started replacing these vines with wine grape varieties.
See also
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Missouri wine
Missouri wine refers to wine made from grapes grown in Missouri. German immigrants in the early-to-mid-19th century founded the wine industry in Missouri, resulting in its wine corridor being called the Missouri "Rhineland". Later Italian immigr ...
References
External links
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Italian-American culture in Missouri
Unincorporated communities in Phelps County, Missouri
1845 establishments in Missouri
Unincorporated communities in Missouri
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