Tag: Lewis and Clark
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Using today’s technology – you can pull up the link on your phone – and find more stories about the buildings, and the people, that line St. Charles Main Street today by touching the dots on the maps. Or if its raining outside, you can open the link and click on the dots right on…
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The entire United States is about to celebrate our Nation’s 250th Anniversary. And we are part of that history. The earliest settlement north of the Missouri River and west of the Mississippi River, was a tiny village that became known as Saint Charles. Founded on the banks of the Missouri River, amongst the Osage, was…
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The treaty with the Osage…There General William Clark began to negotiate a Treaty with the Osage, which would cede nearly 200 square miles of land between the Missouri and Arkansas River to the United States. Soon it was renegotiated, and on November 10th a Treaty negotiated by Auguste Choteau added “all claims to land north…
