Scarritt Point Neighborhood

Historical marker location:

Kansas City, Missouri

( Marker is on Gladstone Boulevard near Independence Avenue (U.S. 24), on the left when traveling north.)

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.