Tracking the Boats

Historical marker location:

1050 S Riverside Dr, St. Charles, Missouri

( Marker can be reached from South Riverside Drive, 0.2 miles south of Boone's Lick Road, on the left when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 2003

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."