3141-45 South Grand Boulevard

Historical marker location:

3143 South Grand Boulevard, Saint Louis, Missouri

( Marker is on South Grand Boulevard south of Hartford Street, on the right when traveling south.)

Built 1909

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."