DeMenil Place During The Gay Nineties

Historical marker location:

3352 DeMenil Place, Saint Louis, Missouri

( Marker is on DeMenil Place north of Cherokee Street, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 2007

Cherokee-Lemp Historic District

The "Show-Me State" is Missouri's official nickname and is believed to have originated from a speech given by Congressman Willard Duncan Vandiver in 1899. He said, "I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me."