Tag: Peruque Creek

• January 1863

  

  On a frigid January night in ‘63, nightfall came just about dinnertime. Under the cloak of darkness, several area secesh men met in the backroom of James Naylor’s store, just north of Dardenne Creek on Boone’s Lick Road. Missouri winters can be brutal, and the windswept prairie was especially cold and windy that year. Like…

  Dorris Keeven-Franke

  January 21, 2023

  1863

  Archer Alexander, Dardenne, James Naylor, January, Louisa, Missouri, Peruque Creek, Richard Pitman, St. Charles County