324 North Main

Historical marker location:

324 North Main Street, St. Charles, Missouri

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

Marker installed: 2011

Kuhlmann's Cash Store. 1892 John Atkinson.

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.