Historical Marker

"Hope Comes at Dawn"

Historical marker location:
1172 Veterans Memorial Pkwy, Perryville, Missouri
( Memorial is on State Highway AC, 0.3 miles west of State Highway V, on the left when traveling west.)

The Missouri Ozarks region is home to the "Bald Knobbers", a vigilante group that formed in the 1880s to enforce the law in the area. They were named after the bald hilltops where they held their meetings and were known for wearing black hoods and using violence to maintain order.