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 Commandant and his Church

    The Commandant and his Church

    More stories of early St. Charles…the home of Presbyterian Minister Timothy Flint, whose honored guest was once the famous author Washington Irving who would share the setting of this visit in his several of his books… Read More

  • The French House

    The French House

    This early building on Block 25 was said to be built by a Frenchman born in Quebec Toussaint Hyancinthe Cerre (Serre) and so it is referred to as “the French House”. Cerre was related to the families of Chouteau and Soulard in St. Louis.

  • Louis Blanchette and his “les Petite Côtes”

    Louis Blanchette and his “les Petite Côtes”

    Here is more about Louis Blanchette (sometimes found as Blanchett) and the earliest  settlement north of the Missouri River known as Saint Charles, originally known and often referred to as Les Petite Côtes or The Little Hills. Today, Block 20 where Blanchette lived according to an original plat of Saint Charles, is the 900 block…