World War Memorial

Historical marker location:

200 West Clay Street, Albany, Missouri

( Memorial is at the intersection of Wood Street and Polk Street, on the right when traveling west on Wood Street.)

1917 - 1919.

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.