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: slavery

  • Poised on the brink…

    Poised on the brink…

    By the end of the 1820s, St. Charles County’s population had grown to 4,320 white Americans living here, primarily from the states of Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. They had brought their enslaved with them, amounting to a total of 476 males, and 475 females for a total of 951 people, approximately 18% of the total…

  • Elijah Lovejoy in St. Charles

    Elijah Lovejoy in St. Charles

    It would only be a few weeks later though when Lovejoy was revisited by another angry mob on November 7, 1837, in Gilman’s Warehouse in Alton. There Elijah Lovejoy was shot and murdered while trying to save his press.

  • JUNETEENTH

    JUNETEENTH

    Sadly, it would not be until that following June 19th, that the U.S. Military would arrive in Texas and those that had been freed there were even told of what Lincoln had done! Today we celebrate that day as JUNETEENTH.