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Pacific was platted in 1852 as the Town of Franklin by Major William C. Inks, and it took its present name in 1859 in honor of the Pacific Railroad.

The Pacific Railroad laid its tracks through the town in 1853, opening on July 19 of that year, and Pacific's post office opened in 1854 and has operated continuously ever since.

On October 1, 1864, during Price's Raid on Missouri, Confederate cavalry under General William Cabell burned Pacific's rail depot and bridges, and the town was regarded as the last line of defense for St. Louis.

Historic Route 66 was routed down present-day Osage Street through downtown Pacific in 1933, and the Red Cedar Inn, opened that same year, became one of the oldest restaurants still standing on Route 66 before it closed in 2007.

Jensen's Point, a stone overlook built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1939 atop the sandstone bluffs above the Meramec River, was restored by the city and offers panoramic views of downtown Pacific and the river.

The Missouri Botanical Garden's 2,444-acre Shaw Nature Reserve began as land purchased just west of Pacific in 1925 to protect the garden's orchid collection from St. Louis coal smoke.

Beneath Pacific's bluffs lies a network of silica sand mining caves, a legacy of the glass-sand mining industry that once operated in the bluffs along the Meramec River.

Pacific borders the Pacific Palisades Conservation Area, which provides public access to the Meramec River just east and south of the city.

Pacific had 7,414 residents at the 2020 census, up from 7,002 in 2010 and only 437 back in 1860.

Pacific has 2,673 households according to the 2020 census, and its population total includes the Missouri Eastern Correctional Center, a state prison built east of town in 1979 that the city annexed in 2004.