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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  • The Treaty of Peace and Friendship

    The Treaty of Peace and Friendship

    Eleven chiefs of the Big Osage, one Arkansas Osage chief, eleven Little Osage chiefs and one chief of the Missourias attached to the Little Osage signed the peace treaty on September 12, 1815. On September 15, 2015, the Commemoration of the Peace and Friendship Treaties took place at the same location as the original signing,…

  • CALLAWAY’S DEFEAT

    CALLAWAY’S DEFEAT

    Here on the frontier, Daniel Boone’s grandson James Callaway, had taken command of Nathan Boone’s company of Rangers at Fort Clemson on Loutre Island … Read more

  • 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…