April 27, 2006. St. Louis, MO. The almost forgotten village of La Charrette - the first settlement in present-day Warren County and the westernmost settlement of the Louisiana Purchase - returns to life in the works of retired professor Lowell M. Schake, was the lead paragraph of this St. Louis Post Dispatch article.

This missing link in American history will be featured by the Warren County Historical Society from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday at the Schowengerdt House, 308 East Booneslick Road, Warrenton, the article noted. It continues to chronical highlights of village history concluding with my donating La Charrette reference materials acquired while compiling its history to the Society.