Ilasco Missouri

Historical marker location:

Ilasco, Missouri

( Marker is at the intersection of State Highway 79 and Ilasco Drive, on the right on State Highway 79.)

A 20th Century Company Town / Immigrant Village. with a peak population of 3,000 residents.

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