ST. CHARLES COUNTY HISTORY

By Dorris Keeven-Franke

Tag: slavery

  • August 23, 1829

    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.

  • AUGUST 22, 1829

    On August 22, 1829 William Campbell wrote in his journal: Made an early start, crossed the Warm Spring Mountain, lately improved by turn piking.

  • AUGUST 21, 1829

    And so begins the journal of William Campbell from Lexington, Virginia to Dardenne Township in St. Charles County Missouri. Begun in August of 1829,