Historic Westland Acres is a predominantly African-American community whose history is tied to Union Baptist Church and to families of former slaves. Although the community was settled about 1879, its future inhabitants had a much longer history in the area. In 1797, Daniel Boone relocated from Kentucky to St. Charles County, Missouri, first transporting his slaves by the Missouri River, and Lawrence Long and about fifty settler families and their slaves made the trip as well. Boone settled on the west side of the Missouri River, while Long's family and slaves settled on the east side in the Bonhomme Creek area. William West and Polly Ellis were among the slaves owned by Lawrence Long. In 1841, Antioch Baptist Church was formally established along Wild Horse Creek Road, west of Eatherton Road, by white Baptist planters, mainly from Virginia, who owned slaves and held large plantations in today's Wild Horse Creek Valley area. After the Civil War, the plantation owners deeded the old church building and one acre of ground to several newly freed slaves, then built the current Antioch Baptist Church and Cemetery farther east on Wild Horse Creek Road. The "colored" church became Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in 1872. In the first quarter of the 20th century, the Mount Pleasant Baptist Church congregation slowly declined and the building was eventually abandoned. The roots of the present Union Baptist Church in Westland Acres include descendants of former slaves of the Tyler and Coleman families and members of the Mt. Pleasant Colored Baptist Church. In 1879, William West purchased 133 acres from John Long and Joel Frazier and donated part of it as a burial ground for family members of freed slaves. This land lay next to acreage originally transferred to a new Colored African Baptist Church three miles east of Mount Pleasant Baptist Church. Matilda and William West settled the land and raised seven children. The name Westland Acres originated decades ago and became commonly known in the early 1990s when Clifford and Doris Frazier and other prominent African-Americans worked to preserve the area's heritage. Westland Acres was designated a Wildwood Historic District in 2005.