Pvt. John Wallace

Historical marker location:

100 West Main Street, Richmond, Missouri

( Marker is on College Street north of Main Street (State Highway 10), on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1985

1746 - 1834. In Memory Of.

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