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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  • Sage Chapel A.M.E. Church

    Sage Chapel A.M.E. Church

    Members of the St. Charles African American community met with members of the African Methodist Episcopal Conference in St. Louis Conference on October 18, 1865, and subsequently founded the St. Charles Conference, which included the St. John’s AME in St. Charles, then Sage Chapel on what is today’s Sonderen, then Grant Chapel AME in Wentzville…

  • An O’Fallon Family Scrapbook

    An O’Fallon Family Scrapbook

    This is from a book of newspaper clippings kept by the Krekel family. Bertha must have been quite the historian, as she took it upon herself to freely editorialize facts published by Miss Keithly, and are what are shared in this story. Otherwise, it is exactly the way it was published in June of 1912,…

  • O’Fallon, Missouri

    O’Fallon, Missouri

    The City of O’Fallon, Missouri was officially founded as O’Fallon Station by two German brothers Arnold and Nicholas Krekel. Arnold had purchased and platted the land, but Nicholas was the only one that ever lived in O’Fallon. Read more…