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Thro & Company Clothing, formerly a 137 N. Main (shown above), has been owned and managed by the Thro family since 1898 when Jean Baptiste Thro, Sr., and his nephew Jean Baptist Thro, Jr., founded the clothing store. J.D. Thro, Senior's Unlce Melc…
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Built in 1808. Celia Ann French, Dr. Millington's niece married Elijah Lovejoy, first martyr of the free press in the United States. He was almost lynched here but escaped to Alton, Ill. Was murdered there in 1837.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2CBC_105-107-north-main-street_Saint-Charles-MO.html
"Like many of the better people of St Charles County, Henry B. Denker is a native of Hanover." Henry Denker served as Mayor of St. Charles, V.P. of the Union Saving Bank, and President of the St. Charles [Railroad] Car Company; he also owned a gro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2CAH_stone-building-brick-building_Saint-Charles-MO.html
Stone Building circa 1820 Residence and business of Sir Walter Rice, served at various times as County Surveyor, Recorder of Deeds, Justice of the Peace and Postmaster. Brick Building circa 1848 Original site of frame warehouse built by…
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[Top plaque:] This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior circa 1769 [Bottom plaque:] A Designated Historic Landmark Landmarks Preservation Board St. …
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Joseph Chancellier arrived with the first settlers of St Louis in 1764. He laid claim to property along St Charles riverfront and then orally conveyed it to the Roman Catholic Church in the 1780's. In May 1804, Lewis and Clark visited "this vil…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C9Q_stone-row_Saint-Charles-MO.html
The Burlington stone used to construct these buildings was quarried from within this city block. Built by Thomas Lindsey, a founder of the first Presbyterian church in St. Charles.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C9O_136-south-main_Saint-Charles-MO.html
An earlier two-story structure, known as the Old Benne Building built by Joseph C. Easton circa 1840, was replaced by this building in 1882. The new Second Empire /Italianate building with its parade balcony and bracketed cornices and pediments wa…
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"The first term of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the District of St. Charles was held on the first Tuesday in January, 1805, in the house of Dr. Antoine Reynal on the site of the present courthouse." The "present" courthouse of 1840-1904 is…
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In 1886, seventeen-year-old John Adam Schreiber stoked the fire, wound the clock by climbing up and straddling the vault door, filled in for the cashier at lunch, and slept in the bank as the night watchman. He became the bank President in 1922. H…
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