Historical Marker
Missouri River floods
Historical marker location:
110 Olive St, St. Charles, Missouri
( Marker can be reached from Olive Street, 0.1 miles east of North 2nd Street (State Highway 94), on the left when traveling east.)
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.