Number 1 Gun

Historical marker location:

415 5th Street, Webb City, Missouri

( Marker is on Ball Avenue near MacArthur Boulevard (U.S. 71), on the left when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 2000

<i>I Spoke For Your Freedom</i>. B Battery, 310th Field Artillery Battalion, 79th Infantry Division.

The University of Missouri, located in Columbia, was the first public university west of the Mississippi River. It was founded in 1839 and has a long history of academic and athletic excellence.