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.

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  • Dardenne Prairie

    Dardenne Prairie

    By 1821, Missouri had become a State, and St. Charles County had established “Dardenne” as a Township…up until 1980 they simply listed the Township as there was not an actual town incorporated by that name until 1983 or a City until 2001. Today it is one of the fastest growing areas in our county, having…

  • Captain Campbell’s Ice House

    Captain Campbell’s Ice House

    They had stored guns and ammunition in the ice house on the old Alexander place, which was now owned by Captain Campbell. Knowing what this meant, Archer would make his way to the Peruque Creek Fort manned by the Union Army’s Home Guards, to warn them.

  • The Boone’s Lick Road

    The Boone’s Lick Road

    The first roads were simply animal traces that the indigenous people followed. These developed as the population grew into trails, and then into roads that could be maintained…