ST. CHARLES COUNTY HISTORY

The entire United States is about to celebrate our Nation’s 250^th Anniversary. And we are part of that history. The earliest settlement north of the Missouri River and west of the Mississippi River, was a tiny village that became known as Saint Charles. Founded on the banks of the Missouri River, amongst the Osage, was Louis Blanchette’s fur trading post in 1769. While he was a French-Canadian fur trader, under Spanish rule, others soon arrived. Before being acquired in the Louisiana Purchase, the great trailblazer Daniel Boone, a Revolutionary War veteran himself arrived with a lot of friends and followers.  With Boone came thousands from the eastern states of Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee with their enslaved. By the time Lewis and Clark passed through with their Corps of Discovery, there were over 100 families living there along our historic Main Street already. Everything since 1769, is part of our “history”. Let’s celebrate!