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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  • Missouri’s Emancipation

    Missouri’s Emancipation

    Missouri’s Emancipation of its’ slaves would not happen until January 11, 1865. The Constitutional Convention called together in St. Louis was chaired by German born Arnold Krekel, a founder of O’Fallon, Missouri…

  • Coming to America

    Coming to America

    In the decade of the 1830s alone over 120,000 Germans immigrated to America, and one-third of those settled in Missouri. Those are the emigrants that made it. Thousands would not survive the journey at sea or the difficult overland trek westward. Nicholas Krekel: “In the fall of the year 1832 we sailed from Bremen. It…

  • Early French home later used in Civil War

    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.