St. Charles Rock Road

Historical marker location:

500 Chestnut Street, Saint Louis, Missouri

( Marker is on North Broadway south of Chestnut Street, on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1913

Boone's Lick Road. St. Louis

The Missouri Ozarks region is home to the "Bald Knobbers", a vigilante group that formed in the 1880s to enforce the law in the area. They were named after the bald hilltops where they held their meetings and were known for wearing black hoods and using violence to maintain order.