Potawatomi Emigration

Historical marker location:

500 East Main Cross, Palmyra, Missouri

( Marker is on East Main Cross, 0.1 miles west of US 61 and US 24 (U.S. 61/24), on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1995

Trail of Death.

Missouri was admitted to the Union as the 24th state on August 10, 1821, becoming the first state entirely west of the Mississippi River.