With the advent of the Louisiana Purchase, St. Charles became part of the Missouri territory. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark started out from St. Charles in 1804 to explore the rest of the Louisiana Purchase. St. Charles County was one of the . . . — — Map (db m163859) HM
Daniel Boone, universal symbol of the American frontier, was 65 when he came to Upper Louisiana, now Missouri, 1799. His wife Rebecca was 60. The Spanish lieutenant governor granted Boone 845 acres nearby here on Femme Osage Creek.
Boone did . . . — — Map (db m42564) HM
1797 - James Mackay granted land including the salt spring by Spanish authorities in St. Louis.
1799 - Daniel Boone and his family arrive in Missouri and receive land grants in St. Charles County from the Spanish authorities.
. . . — — Map (db m248767) HM
Missouri achieved statehood in 1821 as a result of the famous "Missouri Compromise." It was decreed that Missouri be admitted as a slave state, but thereafter no state north of the 36º 30' North latitude in the Louisiana Territory would be . . . — — Map (db m44280) HM
Cribbin's Home
• This park, historically known as the Cribbin's Home, Kuhlmann's Grove, and even Cedar Grove in 1875, features a well-known home built in the mid-1800s.
• The home was built by Lawrence Cribbin (sometimes spelled . . . — — Map (db m150854) HM
Industry on the River
• The St. Louis riverfront is a working industrial and shipping center for the only area in the country that produces six basic metals: iron, lead, zinc, copper, aluminum and magnesium.
• The City of St. Louis . . . — — Map (db m165761) HM
Rolling Along the Katy Trail
• The Missouri-Kansas-Texas (MKT) railroad rolled along this route from 1870 to 1988. Locomotives of every era traveled here, tracing the path of the Missouri River, from the early, wood-burning steam engines, . . . — — Map (db m150851) HM
Thin black lines indicate changes in relevance. Between each pair of lines entries are ordered geographically but all have the same relevance.
* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.
