Marthasville and Treloar are seven miles apart along Katy Trail State Park. Near the Marthasville trailhead, the old Marthasville depot stands next to the grain elevators, and before the Highway 47 underpass at milepost 78.1 an old caboose stands to the north. Between mileposts 79 and 80, the trail runs alongside and crosses Charrette Creek, which was named for La Charrette, a small French settlement established around 1796 south of here. Lewis and Clark stopped at La Charrette on May 25, 1804, and noted seven houses and as many families; the settlement was later washed away by the Missouri River. About halfway to Marthasville, Peers provides services for trail users. It was founded in 1893 when the railroad arrived and was named for MKT attorney Charles Peers; in railroad days, a small depot stood in the gap between the trail and the building fronts there. Views toward the Missouri River include bottomland corn and soybean fields and the Ozark border region beyond, while the opposite side of the trail passes tall dolomite bluffs, hilly pastures, and fine old homes. Near milepost 80, La Charrette, the westernmost Euro-American settlement when Lewis and Clark stopped in May 1804, stood near the mouth of Charrette Creek at the Katy crossing.