UTLX #3882

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.)

Union Tank Line. 1936.

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.