New Melle

Historical marker location:

3575 Mill St, New Melle, Missouri

( Marker is on Mill Street (State Highway F) just south of State Highway D, on the right when traveling north.)

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."