La Charrette - 1800 to 1813 - Marthasville, MO
Posted by: 
YoSam.
N 38° 37.591 W 091° 03.612
15S E 668857 N 4277116
Small French settlement, last white settlement going west, and visited by Leiws & Clark in 1804
Waymark Code: WMP06H
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 06/02/2015
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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 from the 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.
There is a small cabin a short distance from the time line marker, it signifies the original location of the French Village. The Missouri River was directly in front of this cabin in 1804 - today, the river is 2 miles south of here..
There is a marker for the cabin which I will reproduce here:
Marker Erected by: Marthasville Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Committee.
County of Marker: Warren County.
Location of Marker: One St., Wessel Park, Marthasville.
Marker Text:
La Charrette
May 25, 1804 ~ September 20, 1806
Marthasville, Mo
This small house was built by the men of the Marthasville Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Committee to commemorate the stops of the Lewis and Clark Expedition at Charrette Village May 25, 1804 and September 20, 1806. This French style house is on the site of the village. The village in 1804 was the frontier of westward settlement on the Missouri River. It was still that when the men of the expedition made their joyous return to it in 1806.