ST. CHARLES COUNTY HISTORY

906 S Main St, Saint Charles, Missouri, 63301

Circa 1793 – The site of the home of the City of Saint Charles’ founder Louis Blanchette who settled here with his wife and children in 1769. Soon after he was appointed Commandant by the Spanish he built three buildings along the small stream nearby. After his death in 1793, the property was owned by Peter Coontz [Koonz] , a German, who added onto Blanchette’s building or built this one with a small primitive mill along Blanchette’s creek.

When Louis Tayon had been appointed Commandant for the District and he felt that all of Blanchettes’ property should by rights be owned by the City and by rights become his under the Spanish Crown. This would later be argued all of the way to Missouri’s Supreme Court, with the Court still finding in favor of the Coontz family. Excavations done by the Archeology Department for Lindenwood University do confirm that there was a building situated here at this location during the time period of Blanchette’s arrival. 

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