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Historical marker location:

3015 Barrett Station Road, Kirkwood, Missouri

( Marker can be reached from Barrett Station Road east of Old Dougherty Ferry Road, on the right when traveling east.)

New York Central & Hudson River. 1906.

The state of Missouri was the birthplace of the ice cream cone. It was invented by a Syrian immigrant named Ernest Hamwi who was selling waffles at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis. When an ice cream vendor ran out of dishes, Hamwi rolled up one of his waffles to hold the ice cream and the ice cream cone was born.