ST. CHARLES COUNTY HISTORY
By Dorris Keeven-Franke
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Came to Callahan’s for breakfast. A fine Tavern stand. Finely kept by the owner who is much a gentleman. We now commenced traveling on the turnpike. The road is very excellent considering the mountainous regions through which it passes – crosses the Alleghany. Passed the White Sulpher Springs where there were two hundred visitors.
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On August 22, 1829 William Campbell wrote in his journal: Made an early start, crossed the Warm Spring Mountain, lately improved by turn piking.
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And so begins the journal of William Campbell from Lexington, Virginia to Dardenne Township in St. Charles County Missouri. Begun in August of 1829,