La Charrette - Marthasvile, MO - Lewis and Clark Trail on Waymarking.com

County of marker: Warren County
Location of marker: One St., Wessel Park entrance, Marthasville
Marker erected by: Boone-Duden Historical Society

Marker Text:

LA CHARRETTE 1800 - 02 - A small French settlement, located in the western part of the Boone settlement along the
    Missouri River, south of the present town of Marthasvile. It consisted of seven houses, and was to be a
    convenient place for hunting and trading with Indians.

1804 - The Lewis and Clark Expedition came to this small settlement on May 25.
    This was the Expedition's last white settlement as they journeyed on to the Pacific Ocean.
    People in the settlement gave them milk and eggs to eat.

1806 - 07 - In September 1806, Lewis and Clark stopped again at this small settlement
    on their way back west.
    A schoolhouse was built on the edge of La Charrette. Anthony C. Palmer was the teacher. He was paid $9
    per student per year in trade for meat, cattle or country linen, and given a sufficient schoolhouse with
    firewood.

1813 - Rebecca Boone, age 74, wife of Daniel, died at the home of their daughter, Jemima Callaway, and was
    buried in the Bryan Cemetery near Marthasville.

The replica cabin in the galley was built by the Marthasville Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Committee to commemorate the visits.
Text of that marker can be read here: La Charrette cabin

Ed. NOTE: This log cabin replica WAS then on the banks of the Missouri River - which was more than a mile wide at this location. Today, with all the Corps of Engineers levees and channel dredgings, the river now flows more than 1½ miles south of this location

"Must Sees"at this location": The Katy trail is about 1/2 block away, the caboos ice cream stand in the summer is great, bike rentals to ride the trail is available, the oldest train depot on the M.K.T railroad is here, several Lewis and Clark markers, and a Daniel Boone marker, just full of errors and B.S. is also here. Baseball field, a small local tavern out on the hwy (MO 47), several small neat parks, and in August a HUGE pioneer festival. Date Waymark Created: 01/01/1990 Do they allow dogs at this location?: Yes Rate this waymark as to importance:

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