ST. CHARLES COUNTY HISTORY

By Dorris Keeven-Franke

Tag: Boone’s Lick Road

  • Historic Main Street in St. Charles

    Using today’s technology – you can pull up the link on your phone – and find more stories about the buildings, and the people, that line St. Charles Main Street today by touching the dots on the maps. Or if its raining outside, you can open the link and click on the dots right on…

  • The Bates Family

    From the Twin Chimneys Elementary which was built in 1993: Most of the Winghaven Development is located on what was the Bates’ property. Even now, if you superimpose the 1800’s property map over present day satellite images, they are still eerily similar. The part of the Twin Chimneys subdivision, Little Oaks, is where the original…

  • Settlement begins

    This was a difficult time, as we were just a Territory, and with little representation in D.C., and thoughts of Statehood were beginning. The demographics were changing as well, as the fur traders were giving way to those coming from the states of Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee buying up huge swaths of cheap land and…