A five-year effort to mark Missouri’s most notorious slave prison will come to fruition next month, when a bronze historical plaque will be installed on the exterior of the Stadium East parking garage across from Ballpark Village and Busch Stadium.
This story was commissioned by the River City Journalism Fund.
Historians say the parking garage, owned by InterPark Holdings, is located on the site of a slave prison once owned by Bernard M. Lynch, a nationally known trader of enslaved men, women and children. Lynch operated several “slave pens” in pre-Civil War St. Louis, with the largest one beneath the site of the garage…