Historical Marker
Cherokee Cave
Historical marker location:
904 Cherokee Street, Saint Louis, Missouri
( Marker is at the intersection of Cherokee Street and DeMenil Place, on the right when traveling east on Cherokee Street.)
Marker installed: 2007
Cherokee-Lemp Historic District.
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."