In Missouri the Boone's sons, Nathan, Jesse, and Daniel Morgan Boone, and grandson James Callaway played significant roles. Some are listed here:

~By 1805 Nathan and Daniel Morgan Boone re-blazed an old Missouri Indian Trail from their Spanish Land Grants in St. Charles County to the salt lick the found outside old Franklin, (in present Howard County). This was about two thirds the treck across the state of Missouri. This trail, combined with the Plank Road out of San Carlos (today's St. Charles), became the bases for the Boone's Lick Road, used by stage coaches and pioneers to travel to the Santa Fe Trail and the Oregon Trail for westward movement. This trail was also a major transportation for soldiers during the War of 1812.

~Nathan led General William Clark (of Lewis and Clark fame) across the state in 1808 to the site for building Fort Osage. Clark then sent Nathan to the villages of the Osages to bring them to the Fort for treaty talks. This was not an easy task.

~Nathan and Daniel Morgan, and James Callaway all were named as Captains of the first Companies of U. S. Rangers west of the Mississippi River in 1812. Nathan rose to the rank of Major, Daniel Morgan Boone to Lt. Colonel and James Callaway was killed near Loutre Creek by Indians in 1815.

~Nathan was named as one of the two representatives of St. Charles County to Missouri's Constitutional Convention in 1820.

~Jesse was elected to the first Missouri legislator.

~Jesse Boone nominated Thomas Hart Benton as one of Missouri's first two U.S. Senators.

~Daniel Morgan Boone was appointed to a five-man commission to locate a permanent capitol for the state. The encyclopedia Britannica states he platted the town.

~Daniel Morgan Boone was appointed to locate and build the courthouse and establish a County Seat for Gasconade County.

~Daniel Morgan Boone was appointed as the Kaw (Kansa or Kansas) Indian farm instructor and his family was one of the first several families to live in Kew Indian Territory (present day Kansas City area).

~Daniel Morgan Boone was appointed to a five-man committee by the governor to locate by survey the northern border of the state of Missouri.

~Nathan Boone became an officer in the U.S. military spending many years on the frontier to the west of Missouri. He retired as a Lt. Colonel, returning to Missouri. He surveyed Indian boundaries for the U. S. Government, and played a major role in keeping peace between various Indian tribes.

~The County of Boone Iowa is named for Nathan Boone.

~The County of Boone, Missouri, was named for Daniel Boone, to honor the many contributions of his sons. This honor and the naming of the town of Boonville, was done during his lifetime.

~The County of Callaway was named for Captain James Callaway.

~All of the earliest American to travel across the country had to do so on a trail blazed by one of the Boone Boys. Essentially no one went west across the state without moving on a Boone made trail.

{As with all the other Boone's Lick Road Markers, I challenge, or encourage you to track, trace and mark on a map and see if you can re-created the old road.}

This is the site and part of the famous Eckert's Tavern, well known between the years 1818 and 1846 with the migration of various expeditions to the west. The Western House was the starting site for the rougher crowd, Eckert's Tavern was the starting site for the middle class, farmers, and the more gentile. The tavern proper was a large building and stood facing Main St. The second story was destroyed in the tornado of Feb. 26, 1876. The livery stable, known as Anderson's, together with wagon yard and blacksmith shop where wagons were traded and repaired and horses shoed, etc. was in use by the patrons of the tavern.

Saint Charles, Eckert's Tavern, was also the starting point for the expedition of General Zebulon M. Pike in 1806. He had been instructed to explore the western and southwestern parts of the Louisiana Purchase Territory. He left St. Charles and went up the Missouri and Osage Rivers, then traveled overland westward to the Rocky Mountains. In what is now Colorado, Pike discovered the famous mountain peak that still bears his name, Pike's Peak.

The Boone's Lick Road established as a stagecoach worthy road to Franklin, Missouri by May 1820. In 1825 President John Quincy Adams appointed Benjamin Reeves, George Sibley and Thomas Mathers as commissioners to carry out the route to Santa Fe. Using the Boone's Lick Road as the main highway from which the Santa Fe Trail, and later the Salt Lick Trail and even the Oregon Trail grew. These men assembled at Eckert's Tavern to write their reports concerning the survey and marking of the road from St. Charles to New Mexico.

This stately home derives its name from its two builders. A wealthy mill owner, Franklin Newbill, built the south portion in 1838. Dr. William McElhinney, a prominent physician and state legislator, added the north side and upper story in 1858 creating this Federal style home.

Newbill, was the woolen king, but also owned 3 ferrys and a boat landing. His mill, located at Main and Booneslick Road.