Fulton - 1824

Historical marker location:

10 East 5th Street, Fulton, Missouri

( Marker is on East 4th Street east of Court Street, on the left when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 1913

Boone's Lick Road.

The state of Missouri was actually named after a tribe of Sioux Indians called the Missouris, whose name means "town of the large canoes".