
St. Charles Street: St. Charles Rock Road/Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive - Easton/Franklin Avenue
<----- From Here ----- To There -----> I LOVE the history of this road. In the 1760's the two river community brothers, St. Charles and St. Louis, were bustling with a population of about 2,500 people. The road connecting the two towns, St. Charles Street, was just a horse and wagon-worn path. A hundred years later, after carrying travelers like Lt. Clark, post riders and stagecoaches, the path was laid with wooden planks, and then again with rock in the 1920's. Around that t