Greens Bottom to St. Charles

Greens Bottom to St. Charles. Points of Interest. , The distance from Greens Bottom to St. Charles is 6.20 miles. Traveling east toward St. Charles, the elevation remains almost constant. Greens Bottom (milepost 45.7) is named for the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783) veteran James Green, one of the first American settlers in St. Charles County., The origins of the name for Duckett Creek at milepost 44.3 are shrouded in mystery. The creek may have been named after Francois Duquette, an early French-Canadian resident of St. Charles. However, another story suggests T. George Jung named it in honor of his wife, whose pet name was 'Ducke.' Jungs Station Road (milepost 44.1) once fed to a Katy rail station located on Jung's land., The Highway 364 bridge at milepost 42.8 crosses the Missouri River and connects southern St. Charles to St. Louis County. The Creve Coeur Park Connector, a 3.60-mile trail, uses the bridge to link Katy Trail State Park and Creve Coeur Park in St. Louis County., Between mileposts 42.4 and 41.4, a scenic route goes around the Family Arena and concrete plant to avoid heavy traffic, making this one of the longest miles on the trail. St. Charles County is blessed with quality limestone, which has been quarried for more than a century. Lafarge Quarry (milepost 41.4) is a source of St. Louis limestone. Today, limestone is a used as a foundational and ornamental stone, and in concrete., In St. Charles, the route of the Katy Trail State Park runs beside the Missouri River bluffs. Cottonwood, sycamore and box elder trees and horsetail rushes flourish on the riverside. The bluffs support an upland forest with oaks, walnuts, sugar maple and staghorn sumac., [Caption:] , Workers quarried limestone along the MKT for the 1903 St. Charles County Courthouse.