The Wagon House

Historical marker location:

1817 Cherokee Street, Saint Louis, Missouri

( Marker is on Cherokee Street east of Lemp Avenue, on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1999

Cherokee-Lemp Historic District

architecture houses residential buildings

The University of Missouri, located in Columbia, was the first public university west of the Mississippi River. It was founded in 1839 and has a long history of academic and athletic excellence.