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: Settlement

  • 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…

  • The Osage in Saint Charles

    The Osage in Saint Charles

    When French Canadian Louis Blanchette (1739-1793), founder of the City of Saint Charles, arrived in 1769, his only neighbors were the American Indians. The Sauk, Fox, Pottowatomie and Osage were the predominant tribes, using the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers for passage, to trade furs with the settlers in St. Louis… Read more