ST. CHARLES COUNTY HISTORY

By Dorris Keeven-Franke

Tag: Lewis and Clark

  • Saint Charles in 1804

    a number of the Inhabitants had assembled to see us set off we fired our Swivel, from the Bow of our boat; and gave them three Cheers, which they returned;

  • The Little Hills

    “it is terminated by a range of small hills, hence the appellation of petit Cote, a name by which this vilage is better known”

  • How a trail became a road

    The dispute over the control of what had been the native Americans, presided over the residents’ lives for several years, with several homes turned into fortresses, along the Boone’s Lick trail. This in turn established what had once been only a trace, into an actual road, by the end of the hostilities in 1815.