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The current village of St. Bernard was first settled by John Ludlow in 1793. By 1850, John Bernard Schroeder purchased and auctioned 90 lots, naming the area St. Bernard. By 1912, St. Bernard incorporated as a city with more than 5,000 residents. Home of Proctor and Gamble’s Ivory Soap as well as other manufacturing companies put St. Bernard on the map as an industrial power. As jobs multiplied so did the areas residential growth.
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Today in History: May 3, 1973 - The New York Times reported that the mother featured on the box of Ivory Snow detergent was, in fact, Marilyn Chambers, the star of the recently released pornographic film Behind the Green Door.
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