ST. CHARLES COUNTY HISTORY
By Dorris Keeven-Franke
Tag: Boone’s Lick Road
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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…
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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…
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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
ST. CHARLES COUNTY HISTORY 