St. Louis Region
The Heritage Museum ties St. Charles County history to a trailhead
St. Charles County Parks says the Heritage Museum offers local and state history exhibits on a site that also serves as a Centennial Trail trailhead.
The St. Charles County Heritage Museum is a good example of how the county blends parks, trails, and history. St. Charles County Parks says the museum at Heritage Park offers free exhibits on local and state history. The same historic-sites page says the museum sits on a two-acre site that is the trailhead for Great Rivers Greenway’s Centennial Trail, which connects to the Katy Trail.
That makes the place useful to more than museum visitors. It is a public-history stop, a county-park amenity, and a trail connection point in St. Peters. For a resident, it helps explain why St. Charles County’s identity is not only riverfront St. Charles or fast-growing suburbs. The county parks system also preserves and interprets local history in places embedded in everyday recreation routes.
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Where this fits: this note belongs to St. Charles County. See every local note for the county on its page.