Charles Road, with its branches and a road which led towards were Bremen now is. The roads leading from the gates were what are now known as Carondelet Avenue (then the well known Vide Poche Road) the Manchester Road, the St. TOWER STREET, MARKET STREET, MISSOURI STREET, KICKAPOO STREET, NOW ARE WALNUT STREET, MARKET STREET, CHESNUT STREET, PINE STREET, RUNNING EAST AND WEST. The names of the streets that were given at the laying out the town were MAIN STREET, CHURCH STREET, BARN STREET, NO MAIN STREET, SECOND STREET, THIRD STREET, RUNNING NORTH AND SOUTH. The letters have the following significations: The wall of fortifications was completed in 1780.
Its breadth from the Mississippi, to the West, was to the line of the Rue de Grange (now Third street), and its length was some few blocks shorter than the map represents.
Louis, nearly as it was laid out in 1764. The map was drawn in conformity to an order from the Department, at Washington. This Map is copied from the original map drawn by Colonel AUGUSTE CHOUTEAU, who was at the founding of the city, in 1764, and first surveyed the land. Louis as Seen from the Illinois Side, 1770. The south half is where site of the Southern Hotel now stands. As seen from the foot of Walnut Street, between Fourth and Broadway.
