The Plank Road

Historical marker location:

321 Boone's Lick Road, St. Charles, Missouri

( Marker is on Boone's Lick Road east of South 4th Street, on the right when traveling east.)

Chartered February 27, 1851. 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."