Local Map of Boone Duden Historical Society Area
Southern St. Charles & Warren Counties in Missouri
Points of Interest
1. Site of Daniel and Rebecca Boone's Land grant-1798. Also the site of Missouriton, a town founded by the Boones.
2. Daniel and Rebecca Boone lived with their son Daniel Morgan Boone, 1799- 1804. Also the site of Boone Fort during the War of 1812.
3. Daniel and Rebecca Boone lived with their son, Nathan 1804-1813. Here they built the Boone stone house where Daniel died in 1820.
4. House site of Boone's daughter Jemima and her husband Flanders Callaway. Daniel stayed here after Rebecca's death 1813-1820.
5. Daniel and Rebecca Boone's original burying place.
6. Site of the land grant of Boone's daughter Susannah and her husband, William Hayes.
7. Gottfried Duden's farm site and the Dakota Center.
8. Farm sites of Frederick Muench and Paul Follenius. They led the Giessen Emigration Society to Missouri. Also the farm site of Ludwig (Lewis) Eversmann, Duden's companion.
9. Dutzow, founded in 1832 by Baron Von Bock, was the center of the early Berlin Society.
10. Boone Duden Historical Society's Archives and Museum.
11. St. Paul's Lutheran Church founded by German immigrants in 1844. First Lutheran Church in St. Charles County, on the National Register of Historic Places.
12. Femme Osage Evangelical Church, an early German immigrants founded in 1833. The first Evangelical and Reformed Church west of the Mississippi River.
13. St. Vincent De Paul Catholic Church. Organized by German immigrants in 1842.
14. Dardenne Presbyterian Church founded in 1819.
15. Pond Fort Site. (DAR Marker) built in 1800. Used in War of 1812. Also an early mail station.
16. Pauldingville. Site of Kenner's Tavern and Stage Coach Stop. (DAR Marker).
17. TNT Monument and Thomas Howell Cemetery.
18. Francis Howell Cemetery.
19. Charette Village Site.
20. Augusta Historical Museum.
21. Lewis " Clark Trail Marker.
Chronology of the Early History of Boone Duden Area
This chronology was prepared by Bill Schiermeier, society member and author of several books about people and places in the Boone Duden Area.
1763 Charette Village is settled by the French. It was near present day Marthasville, Mo. It is mentioned in the Journals of Lewis and Clark when they ascended the Missouri River in 1804.
1766 St. Charles is settled by the French.
1796 Daniel Morgan Boone (Daniel Boone's son) settles near the present site of Matson, Mo.
1799 Daniel Boone and party migrate from Kentucky to the Femme Osage Valley. Daniel builds cabin near son Daniel Morgan Boone.
1800 David Darst settles in the Missouri River Bottom near Defiance.
1800 Francis Howell settles on Howell's Prairie North of Defiance.
1800 Forts Boone, Howell and Pond were constructed.
1804 Lewis and Clark begin their expedition, May 14, 1804. It is believed that they visited with Daniel Boone before continuing their journey.
1807 Boonslick Trail is blazed by the Boones and Morrisons to mine the salt springs in central Missouri near present day New Franklin in Howard County.
1810 The Callaways move into what later became Warren County.
1812 War of 1812 begins. More forts were built and the first Missouri counties organized. (St. Charles, St. Louis, and St. Genevieve).
1813 Abraham Keithly is the first white man killed by Indians in the local area.
1815 Captain James Callaway, who organized the St. Charles Company Rangers in 1813, is killed by Indians near Loutre Creek on March 7.
1815 The Robert Ramsey Massacre. Indians attacked the home of Robert Ramsey near Charette Village on May 20 and killed him, his preganant wife Sally, daughter Lizzie and two other children, names unknown. Two young children survived.
1816 The home of Nathan Boone (Daniel's son) is completed in the Femme Osage Valley.
1817 Marthasville is founded. This is first town in present day Warren County.
1819 Historic Dardenne Presbyterian Church is founded.
1820 Daniel Boone dies in son Nathan's home. He is buried next to his wife, Rebecca, in Warren County.
1820 U.S. Government Public Lands Act is signed.
1821 Missouri becomes the 24th State on August 10.
1822 "Washington Landing" ferry begins operations.
1824 Gottfried Duden comes from Germany and settles on Lake Creek near present day Dutzow. He returns to Germany in 1826. His letters urge Germans to come to "Missouri Rhineland".
1828 Washington, Missouri is platted by William Owens.
1830 German emigration begins in earnest.
1832 Dutzow founded by Baron von Bock.
1833 First Evangelical and Reformed Church west of the Mississippi is formed in Femme Osage.
1834 Paul Follenius leads Giessen Society to Missouri.
1835 Abraham Matson purchases the original Boone Claim near present day Matson, Missouri.
1836 Leonard Harold plats the town of Mount Pleasant. The first house is built there in 1830.
1836 Pauldingville is platted along the Boonslick Trail.
1836 David Darst's son is killed at "The Alamo".
1837 St. Vincent's Parish in Dutzow is established.
1839 Missouri State University is founded.
1839 Lutherans arrive from Melle Germany and name their settlement "New Melle ".
1840 The towns of Howell, Schluersburg, Matson, Hamburg and Cottleville are settled.
1844 St. Paul's Lutheran Church in New Melle established. It is one of the first Lutheran Churches west of the Mississippi and is now on the National Register.
1844 The year of the Great Flood in the Missouri River Valley.
1845 Cappeln is founded by H. T. Gerdemann.
1847 First Postage Stamps are issued (5 cents and 10 cents).
1849 Cholera epidemic.
1849 Plank Roads are chartered.
1850 Marthasville Seminary is established. Now Eden Seminary.
1850 Steamboat traffic is at its peak on the Missouri River.
1855 North Missouri Railroad is completed to St. Charles.
1855 Augusta, formerly Mount Pleasant, is incorporated March 3.
1856 Goebel Photography is established in St. Charles. Gobel's photos record the early St. Charles County History.
1856 Foristell Missouri is named after Pierre Foristell.
1856 Pleasant Hill Methodist Church is formed near present day Defiance by early Virginia settlers.
1860 Villages of Hopewell Academy, Holstein and Peers in Warren County are founded.
1860 George Muench begins the Mount Pleasant Winery in Augusta.
1864 Sterling Price raids Washington, Missouri.
1864 Weldon Spring is founded by John Weldon.
1865 Mechanicsville is founded by F. Castllio.
1875 St. Charles County Atlas is published. (Excellent record of early county settlers).
1880 Missouri River Flood shifts river course.
1881 Howell Institute is established in Howell. This was the forerunner to the Francis Howell School District.
1892 The Emmaus Home near Marthasville is formed.
1893 Defiance is established as a town.
1894 Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad is completed through river towns.
1894 Merchant John H. Schiermeier builds the first grain elevator in the area which he locates near Matson.
1896 Vine Hill Telephone Exchange begins operation on the Holt Farm in Femme Osage Valley. The exchange serves all the southwest part of St. Charles County.
1905 Rural Free Delivery comes to Callaway and Femme Osage Townships in St. Charles County.
1929 Theodore Yahn of Hamburg invents a bread slicing machine.
1931 The Banks in Augusta, Defiance, Hamburg and New Melle close.
1940 The United States Government chooses the Weldon Spring/Hamburg area for a huge TNT Plant.
Early Towns in the Area
Founded Town 1763 Ca Charette Village (1) 1769 St. Charles (2) 1800-19 Ca Missouriton 1817 Marthasville 1818 Ca Dardenne 1828 Washington 1832 Dutzow 1832 Femme Osage 1836 Augusta (Originally Mt. Pleasant) 1839 New Melle 1840 Cottleville 1840 Hamburg 1840 Matson 1840 Schluersburg 1845 Cappeln 1849 Weldon Spring 1855 Wentzville 1857 Foristell 1857 O'Fallon 1866 Mechanicsville (Howell) 1868 St. Peters (1) Originally a French fur trading settlement
(2) Originally a French settlement called Les Petites Cotes
[Last modified: 28 June, 2004]