Author: Dorris Keeven-Franke
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On Cottleville’s Chestnut Street sits a large two-and-one-half story frame building that once served its’ Methodist Episcopal South congregation. By 1810, John Pitman, a veteran of the Revolutionary War had come to Missouri from Kentucky, settling just to the south of the Cottle family. Portions of his huge estate would provide two additions to the…
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The Boone’s Lick Road as it winds its way through St. Charles County, was used by early immigrants as well, that were settling in Missouri. Today there are still many sites to be seen that are still standing…
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It would be James Morrison who would open the Trading Post on Main Street in 1804 that would sell the product of his salt lick in what is later called “the Boonslick” in Howard County.
