Wentzville City, St Charles County, Missouri (MO)

Wentzville City

St Charles County, Missouri

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Wentzville City Hall is located at 310 Pearce Boulevard, Wentzville, MO 63386.
Phone: 636‑327‑5101.

Neighborhoods

  • Appaloosa Ranch Estates
  • Autumn Trail
  • Bluff Estates
  • Boone Ridge Estates
  • Cypress Meadows
  • Green Meadows Estates
  • Meadow Brook Estates
  • New Melle Lake Estates
  • Providence Pointe
  • Stone Meadows
  • Albany
  • Autumn Valley Lakes
  • Avondale
  • Avondale Hills
  • Avondale Meadows
  • Avondale Park
  • Baileys
  • Barclay
  • Barnor Estates
  • Barton Creek
  • Bear Creek
  • Bear Creek Greens
  • Bear Creek Meadows
  • Bedford Falls
  • Briar Meadow
  • Brookshire Creek
  • Brookshire Creek West
  • Carlton Glen
  • Carlton Glen Estates
  • Cedar Pointe
  • Cherokee Lake Estate
  • Cimarron
  • Creekside
  • Creekside Place
  • Crystal Creek
  • Eagle Pointe
  • East Hampton Woods
  • El Mau Acres
  • Estates at Peine Forest
  • Fairwest Estates
  • Feldewert Acres
  • Fiddlestix
  • Fields at Point Prairie
  • Fieldstone Estates
  • Fleur De Lis
  • Fleur De Lis Estates
  • Flint Hill Country Estate
  • Flint Ridge Farms
  • Forest Lake at Bear Creek
  • Fountains at Bear Creek
  • Fox Run
  • Glenhurst
  • Golf Club at Wentzville
  • Gratree
  • Great Oaks
  • Green Gables
  • Greenfield Valley Estates
  • Hannah Ridge
  • Heritage Point Villas
  • Heritage Pointe
  • Hickory Hill Farm
  • Highland Estates
  • Highland Forest
  • Homeshire
  • Huntsdale
  • Koenigs Addition
  • Langtree Estates
  • Layton Woods
  • Liberty Groves
  • Lynchburg Estates
  • Manors at Oakbrook Estates
  • Manors at Quail Ridge
  • Meadowbrook Farms
  • Meadows Of Avondale Hills
  • Meadows Of Williamsburg
  • New Melle Woods
  • Newport Meadows
  • Nichole Parc
  • Northwood Estates
  • Oak Glen
  • Parklane
  • Peanick Parc
  • Pearce Farm
  • Peine Lake Estates
  • Peine Ridge
  • Peine Woods
  • Penday
  • Penday Add
  • Peruque Creek Estates
  • Peruque Hills Estates
  • Prairie View Acres
  • Prospect Lakes
  • Providence Meadows
  • Quail Ridge
  • Railroad Addition
  • Renaissance Crossing
  • Scotti Lane Apartments
  • Seasons at Lake St Louis
  • Settlers Pointe
  • Shadow Ridge
  • Shannon Glen Estates
  • Shockdrake Court
  • Somerset Manor
  • Stone Ridge Canyon
  • Stonegate
  • Stonemoor
  • Stonemoor at The Park
  • Summer Brook
  • Summerbrook
  • Sycamore Creek
  • Tanglewood
  • The Fields at Point Prairie
  • The Fountains at Bear Creek
  • The Manors at Quail Ridge
  • The Manors at Wilmer Valley
  • The Meadows at Keeneland Trails
  • The Villages at Huntleigh
  • The Villas And Townhomes at Stone Ridge
  • The Woodlands
  • Timber Trace
  • Town And Country Acres
  • Victorias Ridge
  • Villages at Prairie Bluffs
  • Villages Of Hampton Grove
  • Villages Of Stonegate
  • Villas at Grayhawk
  • Villas at Huntsdale
  • Villas at Stone Ridge Canyon
  • Warson Hills
  • Wentzville Heights
  • Wentzville Woods
  • West Hampton Woods
  • West View Acres
  • Whisper Creek
  • Willows Of Peine Estates
  • Wood Hollow
  • Woodland Creek
  • Woodland Creek Estates
  • Woodland Meadows
  • Woodlands at Bear Creek
  • Wyndgate Oaks
  • Wynncrest

Beginnings [1]

Wentzville, Missouri is located in the northwestern part of St. Charles County, 32 miles west of St. Charles, the county seat, and 42 miles west of St. Louis. William M. Allen, a local farmer, merchant and extensive landholder in the area founded the town in 1855, the same year the North-Missouri Railroad connected Wentzville to markets in St. Charles and St. Louis. Allen's donation of land and money was instrumental in building the North-Missouri Railroad through Wentzville; he built the first depot and accepted the appointment of station agent. As a result of the railroad, the town began to prosper with the establishment of a hotel, restaurant, banks and stores, built principally to serve the railroad.

During the mid-19th century the cultivation of tobacco emerged as an important agricultural pursuit in Missouri, placing the state third in national production by 1873. Nearly every county in the state produced some leaf, while certain counties developed as major growers. A strip of land on the western side of St. Charles County stretching from the Missouri River on the south to Eagle Fork (now Big Creek), a branch of the Cuivre River, on the north, was one of Missouri's banner tobacco-growing regions. Included in this land was the Wentzville area where almost every farmer had a tobacco barn and many of the St. Louis tobacco manufacturing giants got their start, including. George S. Myers, co-founder of Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co.; Paul Brown, of Brown Tobacco Co.; James T. Drummond of Drummond Tobacco Co.; and Caleb Dula, President of Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. after the court degree of 1911.

In addition to growing tobacco, Wentzville area residents also began manufacturing at an early date; in 1865 it was reported that three tobacco factories (all demolished) were in operation there. Moreover, the tobacco district of St. Charles County, along with Pike County, is credited with having been the cradle of invention of plug chewing tobacco, which was the most widely-used form of tobacco in America until the World War I era.

  1. Barb Eisenbath Mittelbuscher, Wentzville Community Historical Society, Wentzville Tobacco Company Factory, St. Charles County, MO, nomination document, 1990, National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places, Washington, D.C.

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