ST. CHARLES COUNTY HISTORY

By Dorris Keeven-Franke

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Award winning author, and International speaker. President of the Archer Alexander Memorial Foundation. Member of the Missouri Speakers Bureau and the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. President of the Boone’s Lick Road Association. Executive Director of the Missouri Germans Consortium. She has been writing for over 35 years and published several books on local history, German immigration, and other topics. Currently working on To Tell a True Story – Archer Alexander.

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  • Historic Main Street in St. Charles

    Historic Main Street in St. Charles

    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…

  • THE WAR OF 1812

    THE WAR OF 1812

    “We have made our homes here and all we have is here, and it would ruin us to leave now. We be all good Americans, not a Tory or one of his pups among us, and we have 200 men and boys that will fight to the last and have 100 women and girls that…

  • ST. CHARLES PREPARES FOR WAR

    ST. CHARLES PREPARES FOR WAR

    Governor Howard sent orders to Col. Kibby, who commanded the St. Charles Militia to call out the portion of the men he had held in reserve, to march at a moments notice.”  These troops were waiting for just such a moment.