Heroic Efforts

Historical marker location:

700 Clark Avenue, Saint Louis, Missouri

( Marker is on South 8th Street (Old U.S. 66) south of Spruce Street, on the right when traveling north.)

July 13, 1911. Greatest Moments

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