Webb City Veterans Memorial

Historical marker location:

Webb City, Missouri

( Memorial is at the intersection of West Daugherty Street and Ball Avenue, on the right when traveling west on West Daugherty Street.)

Marker installed: 1956

Pause and Pray. Memorial Park.

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.