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.

Category: Boone’s Lick Road

  • Germans helped create the road

    Germans helped create the road

    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…

  • Where the Road began

    Where the Road began

    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.

  • 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.