2225 Cherokee

Historical marker location:

2225 Cherokee Street, Saint Louis, Missouri

( Marker is at the intersection of Indiana Avenue and Cherokee Street, on the right when traveling north on Indiana Avenue.)

Marker installed: 2007

German Bakers. Cherokee-Lemp Historic District

The state of Missouri was the birthplace of the ice cream cone. It was invented by a Syrian immigrant named Ernest Hamwi who was selling waffles at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis. When an ice cream vendor ran out of dishes, Hamwi rolled up one of his waffles to hold the ice cream and the ice cream cone was born.