Historic Site

Historical marker location:

721 Pestalozzi Street, Saint Louis, Missouri

( Marker is at the intersection of Pestalozzi Street and South 9th Street, on the right when traveling west on Pestalozzi Street.)

Main Office Building. 721 Pestalozzi Street

The state of Missouri was actually named after a tribe of Sioux Indians called the Missouris, whose name means "town of the large canoes".