On North 2nd Street (State Highway 94) at Clark Street (State Highway 94), on the left when traveling north on North 2nd Street.
(left plaque:)
Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne, Pioneer Missionary of the Society of the Sacred Heart, came to St. Charles from France and founded the first free school west of the Mississippi on this site in 1818.
(right . . . — — Map (db m140764) HM
On Rue St. Francois, 0.1 miles west of North St. Charles Street, on the right when traveling west.
To the Native Americans, she was the Woman Who Always Prays. Born in France, she came to Florissant in 1819. Her convent home still stands and with Old St. Ferdinand's Shrine is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. She opened the . . . — — Map (db m140720) HM
Near River View Drive, 0.1 miles north of Le Sieur Street, on the left when traveling north.
Arrived from France on mission to convert the Indians and established first school west of the Mississippi in St. Charles County — — Map (db m140970) HM
On Delmar Boulevard east of Limit Avenue, on the right when traveling east.
Born in Grenoble, France, Rose Philippine Duchesne was drawn to a life of religious service. She led five Religious of the Sacred Heart Nuns to the St. Louis area in 1818, settling in the then frontier town of St. Charles, where Duchesne opened the . . . — — Map (db m124711) HM
This memorial is dedicated to:
"Quah-Kah-Ka-Num-Ad"
Potawatomie for
"Woman Who Prays Always".
Rose Philippine Duchesne was a nun of the
Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus,
a teaching order.
She taught Indian children here in . . . — — Map (db m70633) HM
On Main Street (State Highway 52) west of 7th Street, on the left when traveling west.
Sacred Heart Catholic Church is the official Shrine to St. Philippine Duchesne; the only person to set foot in Kansas territory to be canonized to Sainthood, as of 2010.
This Church was built by the Diocese in 1941-1942. 1941 was the year St. . . . — — Map (db m93372) HM
On Maine Street west of 7th Street, on the right when traveling west.
From October 8-10, 1838, more than 800 Potawatomi Indians were encamped here in Quincy, Illinois and directly across the Mississippi River in Missouri. They were being forced to march from Southern Michigan and Northern Indiana to Eastern Kansas . . . — — Map (db m150021) HM
On U.S. 40, 0.1 miles east of East 3rd Avenue, on the right when traveling east.
According to one tradition, the Duchesne River was named after Mother Rose Philippine Duchesne.
Mother Duchesne and the Catholic Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, had started schools in Missouri. The children of many of the early pioneer . . . — — Map (db m72766) HM