Veterans Memorial

Historical marker location:

308 North Smith Street, Cuba, Missouri

( Memorial is on North Smith Street just north of Bourbon Drive, on the left when traveling north.)

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.