Historical Marker

Willis Porter Corwin

Historical marker location:
117 East McCarty Street, Jefferson City, Missouri
( Marker is on McCarty Street east of Jefferson Street, on the left when traveling east.)
Marker installed: 2007

9ABD.

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.