West of the Mississippi, the site of the beginning of the American Frontier, you will find the only serving restaurant/tavern in Missouri that has been in operation since 1834.
I didn't even know this was a thing, but apparently it is. There are 30 general stores from the 1800s that are still in business and Missouri is home to one of them.
Did you know that there is one Missouri school that is the oldest in the state and was once the school for a few famous people you might have heard of?
In researching fun facts about Missouri and the more and more I went down the rabbit hole of the Google, I found that Missouri is home to the first known drive-thru in the Nation.