Navy Seabees

Historical marker location:

1024 E McCarty St, Jefferson City, Missouri

( Memorial can be reached from East McCarty Street just west of Locust Street, on the left when traveling west.)

The famous Dred Scott case, which helped fuel the tensions that led to the Civil War, originated in Missouri. Dred Scott was a slave who sued for his freedom in the Missouri courts in 1857, but the U.S. Supreme Court ultimately ruled against him.