 Picture courtesy of Jim Kuntz.
 Picture courtesy of Jim Kuntz.
The Plank Road
Chartered February 27, 1851
The beginning point of the "Western Plank Road", a toll road of two bits (25 cents) per person, extended nine miles to Cottleville, connecting with Boone's Lick Road. Stagecoaches left from St. Charles here at the Boone's Lick Trading Post circa 1854. The coaches traveled first weekly, then daily, to old Franklin (washed away by the Missouri River) and to Fort Osage, 275 miles from St. Louis. The plank road lasted only 13 years and became impossible to maintain due to rot, warp-age and thieves, who used the planks for firewood and barn building.
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Photo#2 Location of trading post. Some of the old building is incorporated within this building.]
* Historical Marker * South Main Preservation Society of St. Charles, Missouri.
4th St. & Boone's Lick Rd., St. Charles, Saint Charles County Missouri
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