Boeing Aviation Fields

Historical marker location:

5500 Clayton Ave, Saint Louis, Missouri

( Marker is on Clayton Avenue east of McKinley Drive, on the right when traveling east.)

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.