ST. CHARLES COUNTY HISTORY

By Dorris Keeven-Franke

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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

  • Settlement begins

    Settlement begins

    This was a difficult time, as we were just a Territory, and with little representation in D.C., and thoughts of Statehood were beginning. The demographics were changing as well, as the fur traders were giving way to those coming from the states of Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee buying up huge swaths of cheap land and…

  • The Treaty of Peace and Friendship

    The Treaty of Peace and Friendship

    Eleven chiefs of the Big Osage, one Arkansas Osage chief, eleven Little Osage chiefs and one chief of the Missourias attached to the Little Osage signed the peace treaty on September 12, 1815. On September 15, 2015, the Commemoration of the Peace and Friendship Treaties took place at the same location as the original signing,…

  • Boone & Sibley at Fort Osage

    Boone & Sibley at Fort Osage

    William Clark and Nathan Boone’s overland march of mounted dragoons from St. Charles, followed what later became the Boone’s Lick Trail View post to subscribe to the site’s newsletter.