Historical Marker
The Southwest Boulevard Fire
Historical marker location:
3054 Southwest Boulevard, Kansas City, Missouri
( Marker is on Southwest Boulevard north of 31st Street, on the left when traveling north.)
August 18, 1959.
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.