Working Plantation / ~150 Years Ago - Emancipation

Historical marker location:

7400 Grant Road, Affton, Missouri

( Marker can be reached from Grant Road, 0.3 miles north of Gravois Road (U.S. 30), on the right when traveling north.)

Missouri was admitted to the Union as the 24th state on August 10, 1821, becoming the first state entirely west of the Mississippi River.