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

  • FREEDOM DAY CELEBRATION

    FREEDOM DAY CELEBRATION

    An event celebrating the life of an enslaved St. Charles County man who became our nation’s symbol for freedom…. see more

  • Sage Chapel Cemetery to receive plaque

    Sage Chapel Cemetery to receive plaque

    In the early 1800s, Samuel Keithly (1789-1870) came from Kentucky, and settled in St. Charles County, bringing his slaves. The father of a large family with seven children, several step-children, and many grandchildren, the family had other members who owned slaves as well. By the 1840s, the family owned hundreds of acres of land, and…

  • LOOKING BACK

    LOOKING BACK

    This land that we call St. Charles County now, has been home to many people and many cultures in the past 250 years. “The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”