ST. CHARLES COUNTY HISTORY

By Dorris Keeven-Franke

Tag: Boone’s Lick Road

  • Old Maps

    Historical research using maps, is one of my favorite techniques. Here’s what an long lost 1817 map told me, about the Boone’s Lick Road…

  • The people on the hill

    on his land was a road that led from his plantation house up into town to the Railroad tracks, just east of the station. On that road, his enslaved had lived for generations, which was how it had earned its name. The 1930 Census taker would refer to it as …..

  • Early French home later used in Civil War

    Gregorie Kircereau who was a nephew of St. Charles’ second Commandant Carlos Tayon built this house but it was later used as a headquarters by the Provost Marshall during the Civil War.