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St. Charles County, MissouriSt. Charles County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
Etymology - Origin of County NameNamed for Italian Cardinal St. Charles Borromeo. Demographics:County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts History of Saint Charles CountyA county in eastern Missouri, lying between the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers and south of Cuivre River. It is just east of the 5th principal meridian of longitude. As at present constituted, it is bounded on the east and northeast by the Mississippi River, on the south by the Missouri River and just across it by St. Louis and Franklin Counties, on the west by Warren County, and on the northwest by Lincoln County. When it was first organized, on October 1, 1812, it was far larger; in fact it was the largest county ever in existence. It extended from the Missouri River to Canada on the north, and to the Pacific Ocean on the west, and so remained until 1816. The county, or "District of St. Charles," or "St. Charles District," as it was often called, really had at that time no definite limits. In 1816, however, Howard County was cut off from the western part of St. Charles and organized separately. Cedar Creek, which now forms the eastern boundary of Boone County, was established as the line between St. Charles and Howard. In December, 1818, Montgomery and Lincoln Counties were organized, and St. Charles, which at first included the present Warren County (q.v.), was finally reduced to its present dimensions. Undoubtedly the county took its name from the town of St. Charles, as the dates make apparent. (HIST. ST. CHARLES, 126; Williams, N.E. MISSOURI I, 554; Eaton; Benj. Emmons) See District of St. Charles
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The history of our nation was a prolonged struggle to define
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