ST. CHARLES COUNTY HISTORY

By Dorris Keeven-Franke

Category: Places

  • The Underground Railroad

    That’s when he overheard a meeting of the area’s Confederates planning an attack on the wooden trestle, the Peruque Bridge as it spanned a huge gorge, where the creek ran through the bottom of it. The Union forces had built a stockade fort just to the west to guard it from just such attacks. Read…

  • The Alexander house in Dardenne Prairie

    By 1834, the house would be complete, and James Alexander became the area’s Postmaster of what he named Stockland. The area was growing rapidly and being located directly on the Boone’s Lick Road was of great advantage. Read the entire story…

  • O’Fallon, Missouri

    The City of O’Fallon, Missouri was officially founded as O’Fallon Station by two German brothers Arnold and Nicholas Krekel. Arnold had purchased and platted the land, but Nicholas was the only one that ever lived in O’Fallon. Read more…