#30

Historical marker location:

3015 Barrett Station Road, Kirkwood, Missouri

( Marker can be reached from Barrett Station Road east of Old Dougherty Ferry Road, on the right when traveling east.)

Illinois Central, University of Illinois Dynamometer Car. 1943.

The University of Missouri, located in Columbia, was the first public university west of the Mississippi River. It was founded in 1839 and has a long history of academic and athletic excellence.