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: Places

  • The Abington family

    The Abington family

    Many of the families had relatives all over St. Charles County and were members of the various AME churches…the Abington family can be found at Sage, Grant and Smith Chapel Cemeteries….

  • The people on the hill

    The people on the hill

    on his land was a road that led from his plantation house up into town to the Railroad tracks, just east of the station. On that road, his enslaved had lived for generations, which was how it had earned its name. The 1930 Census taker would refer to it as …..

  • Sage Chapel A.M.E. Church

    Sage Chapel A.M.E. Church

    Members of the St. Charles African American community met with members of the African Methodist Episcopal Conference in St. Louis Conference on October 18, 1865, and subsequently founded the St. Charles Conference, which included the St. John’s AME in St. Charles, then Sage Chapel on what is today’s Sonderen, then Grant Chapel AME in Wentzville…