Missouri’s First State Capitol

St Charles is the second largest city in the St Louis metropolitan area & is about half an hour from our house. It was the organization point of the Lewis & Clark Expedition in 1804 & was also Missouri’s First State Capitol (now Jefferson City).

We went to ‘Main Street’ St Charles which features over 100 historic buildings, shops (including an English shop) & restaurants. Most of the shops that we went into were similar to those in Kimmswick, i.e. historic buildings converted gift shops.