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Historical marker location:

700 South Main Street, St. Charles, Missouri

( Marker is on South Main Street south of Perry Street, on the right when traveling north.)

circa 1805. Historic Marker, St. Charles, Missouri.

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."