437 North Main

Historical marker location:

437 North Main Street, St. Charles, Missouri

( Marker is at the intersection of North Main Street and Clark Street, on the left when traveling north on North Main Street.)

circa 1900.

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."