ST. CHARLES COUNTY HISTORY

By Dorris Keeven-Franke

recent posts

about

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

  • How a trail became a road

    How a trail became a road

    The dispute over the control of what had been the native Americans, presided over the residents’ lives for several years, with several homes turned into fortresses, along the Boone’s Lick trail. This in turn established what had once been only a trace, into an actual road, by the end of the hostilities in 1815.

  • Old Maps

    Old Maps

    Historical research using maps, is one of my favorite techniques. Here’s what an long lost 1817 map told me, about the Boone’s Lick Road…

  • Researching the history of a place

    Researching the history of a place

    Check back to this site and learn more research methods that I will be posting periodically….