ST. CHARLES COUNTY HISTORY

By Dorris Keeven-Franke

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Award winning author, and International speaker. President of the Archer Alexander Memorial Foundation. Member of the Missouri Speakers Bureau and the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. President of the Boone’s Lick Road Association. Executive Director of the Missouri Germans Consortium. She has been writing for over 35 years and published several books on local history, German immigration, and other topics. Currently working on To Tell a True Story – Archer Alexander.

Author: Dorris Keeven-Franke

  • Bonhomme

    Bonhomme

    passed Several Small farms on the bank, and a large creek on the Lbd. Side Called Bonom …

  • Saint Charles in 1804

    Saint Charles in 1804

    a number of the Inhabitants had assembled to see us set off we fired our Swivel, from the Bow of our boat; and gave them three Cheers, which they returned;

  • The Little Hills

    The Little Hills

    “it is terminated by a range of small hills, hence the appellation of petit Cote, a name by which this vilage is better known”