Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Marthasville, MO

Marthasville is a city in Warren County in east-central Missouri, in the Missouri River bottoms, and is the oldest town in Warren County.

Marthasville succeeded the French village of La Charette, founded around 1766 at the mouth of Charette Creek as a hunting, trapping, and trading post — the last settlement Lewis and Clark passed on their way west in 1804.

The town was laid out by Dr. John Young, who settled in the area about 1818, and a post office called Marthasville has been in operation since 1825 — though the identity of the 'Martha' it honors is still disputed.

The original graves of frontiersman Daniel Boone and his wife Rebecca were located near Marthasville, where Boone spent his final years living with his daughter Jemima and son-in-law Flanders Callaway.

In 1845 Daniel Boone's remains were disinterred and moved to Kentucky for burial, but a persistent Missouri legend holds that Boone's remains never actually left Missouri.

Marthasville had a population of 1,245 at the 2020 census, up from 1,136 in 2010, when the census counted 431 households in the city.

Marthasville has grown in every census since 1940, rising from 321 residents to 1,245.

The 240-mile Katy Trail, Missouri's rail-trail state park, passes through Marthasville.

Because of the many wineries between it and Defiance to the east, Marthasville is considered one end of the Missouri Weinstrasse, the state's wine road.

Three Marthasville-area properties — the Herman H. Fortmann Building, the Marthasville Hardware Building, and the Starke-Meinershagen-Boeke Rural Historic District — are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.