Visit Missouri
The Show Me State
Missouri is Historic
- Missouri joined the United States in 1821
- Iced tea was invented in Missouri
- The waffle cone was invented in Missouri
- Kansas City has more fountains than any city except Rome
- Missouri was the second state acquired in the Louisiana Purchase
- President Harry S. Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri.
- Missouri is named after a tribe of Native Americans; Missouri meaning "town of the large canoes"
- First slave state to free it's slaves
- Tallest man ever recorded: Robert Pershing Wadlow from St. Louis was 8'11" tall
- St. Louis is known as "The Gateway to the West"
Visit the St. Louis Arch!
Built to represent Lewis & Clark crossing the Mississippi to the Gateway to the West.
Arrowhead Stadium
The world's loudest open air stadium.
Lake of the Ozarks
Tons of family fun on Missouri's most popular lake!
Famous Missourians
- Brad Pitt
- Stan Musial
- Paul Rudd
- Jason Statham
- Nelly
- Walt Disney
- JC Penny
- Yogi Berra
- Jesse James
- Dick Van Dyke
- Albert Pujols
State Symbols
- Animal-Mule
- Bird-Blue Bird
- Flower-White Hawthorn Blossom
- Fossil-Crinoid
- Insect-Honeybee
- Mineral-Galena
- Intrument-Fiddle
- Rock-Mozarkite
- Tree-Flowering Dogwood
- Aquatic Animal-Paddlefish
- Fish-Channel Cat
- Song-Missouri Waltz
Missouri Executive Officers
- Governor-Jay Nixon
- Lieutenant-Peter Kinder
- Secretary of State-Robin Carnahan
- State Auditor-Thomas Schweich
- State Treasurer-Clint Zweifel
- Attorney General-Chris Koster