Old CourtHouse of Saint Louis
It's not Murcia. Saint Louis, MO, USA
The Old St. Louis County Courthouse was built as a combination federal and state courthouse in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Missouri's tallest habitable building from 1864 to 1894, it is now part of Gateway Arch National Park and operated by the National Park Service for historical exhibits and events. (Source: Wikipedia)
The Old Courthouse was the site of the first two trials of the pivotal Dred Scott* case in 1847 and 1850. It was also where Virginia Minor's* case for a woman's right to vote came to trial in the 1870s.
St. Louis' Old Courthouse is listed in the National Park Service's National Underground Railroad Network To Freedom. The Network to Freedom recognizes sites, programs and facilities with verifiable associations to the Underground Railroad. The phenomenon popularly known as the Underground Railroad has been broadly defined by the National Park Service as the "historic resistance to enslavement through escape and flight." (Source: nps.gov)
*One of the most important cases ever tried in the United States began here when Dred and Harriet Scott filed for their freedom.
*Virginia Minor was a suffragist who attempted to register to vote in 1872 in the Old Courthouse.
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