230 North Main

Historical marker location:

230 North Main Street, St. Charles, Missouri

( Marker is on North Main Street south of Monroe Street, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 2011

Schubert Music/St. Charles Music Co. 1906-1935 Walters Jewelry 1935-. 1878 S.H. Merten & Company.

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.