Settled upon by a French Canadian named Louis Blanchette in 1769, it grew into a Territory, then a County, and even a City named St. Charles. Daniel Boone and his followers arrived by 1799, and their early forts became stagecoach stops on the Boone’s Lick Road. The German immigrants arrived in the 1830s and made it America’s wine garden.
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