ST. CHARLES COUNTY HISTORY

By Dorris Keeven-Franke

recent posts

about

History happens. All stories, especially the difficult ones, need to be heard. Award winning author, a public historian, professional genealogist, and International speaker. Member of the Missouri Speakers Bureau and the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom.

Author: Dorris Keeven-Franke

  • August 26th

    August 26th

    Two miles below the bridge we passed the great falls of Kenewha*, a great natural curiousity, an admirable site for water works. A great quantity of timber is sawed here and several hundred large flat boats are built here for the purpose of taking salt down the Ohio.

  • August 25, 1829

    August 25, 1829

    William Campbell is a young 23 year-old-single man who has set out from Virginia to Missouri. All along these, numerous houses have been built for the purpose fo keeping entertainment. Many of them good houses.

  • August 24, 1829

    August 24, 1829

    Staid in Lewisburg until evening. It was a quarterly court and a day of great resort in Lewisburg. Started in the evening and came to Pierce’s [Pierie’s] ten miles over the Muddy Creek Mountain. Fared well.