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

  • O’Fallon, Missouri

    O’Fallon, Missouri

    The City of O’Fallon, Missouri was officially founded as O’Fallon Station by two German brothers Arnold and Nicholas Krekel. Arnold had purchased and platted the land, but Nicholas was the only one that ever lived in O’Fallon. Read more…

  • Sage Chapel Cemetery

    Sage Chapel Cemetery

    Sage Chapel Cemetery is a small one acre graveyard which lies next to O’Fallon’s Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5077 at 8500 Veterans Memorial Parkway in O’Fallon, Missouri.

  • Franklin School

    Franklin School

    For over half of a century, this was the only African American High School available in St. Charles County. Student came from as far as Wentzville. This is a very special place that needs to be understood, recalled, and preserved.