The Trail's End Project

Historical marker location:

2503 West 16th Street, Sedalia, Missouri

( Marker is on Limit Avenue (U.S. 65) south of 16th Street, on the left when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 2015

America's 1st Trail's End.

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.