A Bit of History...



After the War of 1812, there was a westward flow of migration through the present-day St. Charles County on the Booneslick Trail (later part of interstate 70). O'Fallon's history as a city started in the 1850s. Arnold Krekel was a German immigrant who held a number of offices, including U.S. District Court Judge and Missouri state legislator. He founded a German-language newspaper and invested in the North Missouri Railroad, among other activities. Krekel's younger brother Nicholas built the first house in O'Fallon. It still stands. In 1854, Judge Krekel granted the North Missouri Railroad permission to build a depot on his property along with a right-of-way on his "Krekel Addition". In 1856, Judge Krekel named the depot O'Fallon Station after his friend John O'Fallon, the railroad's president and a noted philanthropist. In 1860, the "Krekel Addition" was renamed O'Fallon, and in 1912, it was incorporated.

The City of O’Fallon was named as a "Best Place to Live" by Money magazine in 2006  (39 out of 100), ranked O'Fallon 68 out of 100 in 2008, and 26 out of 100 in 2010.