Jane Gray House Foundation

Historical marker location:

12359 County Rd 81, Athens, Missouri

( Marker can be reached from County Road 81, 0.2 miles east of County Road CC, on the right.)

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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."