Interesting Facts About Missouri

The St. Louis Cardinals baseball team and a big arch are a couple of the first things to come to mind when you think of Missouri.

Soybeans

square dance

Bluebird

Taum Sauk Mountain

The Gateway Arch

The Gateway Arch is a 630 ft monument in St. Louis built in 1965.  Its covered by stainless steel and is the world’s tallest arch as well as the tallest monument in the western hemisphere.  It was built as a monument to the westward expansion of the United States.

Anheuser Busch brewery

Auguste Chouteau

fiddle

dogwood

Honey Bee

large canoesThe meaning of Missouri is the “Town of the Large Canoes” which comes from the Sioux Indians.

Missouri Waltz

Mule

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