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The Show Me Center is a multi-purpose arena, located on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. [2]Since its opening in 1987, this joint project between the City of Cape Girardeau and the university annually hosts approximately 250 meeting room and 160 arena events as an entertainment, meeting, and gathering center.
Cape Girardeau (/ dʒ ɪ ˈ r ɑːr d oʊ / jirr-AR-doh, French: Cap-Girardeau [kap ʒiʁaʁdo] ⓘ; colloquially referred to as "Cape") is a city in Cape Girardeau and Scott Counties in the U.S. state of Missouri.
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Southeast Missouri State University (Southeast or SEMO) is a public university in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. In addition to the main campus, the university has four regional campuses offering full degree programs and a secondary campus housing the Holland College of Arts and Media. The university is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. [5]
The Southeast Missouri State Redhawks football program is the intercollegiate American football team for the Southeast Missouri State University located in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) and are members of the Ohio Valley Conference. The school's first football team was ...
In 1924, citizens in Cape Girardeau, Missouri formed a committee to build a non-denominational, non-profit community hospital in the city. [2] In 1926, a group of 20 businessmen and physicians signed individual promissory notes to purchase a 52.5-acre (21.2 ha) tract of land for $8,250 from Emil Thilenius and Mrs. Anna Keller.
Cape Girardeau County was organized on October 1, 1812, as one of five original counties in the Missouri Territory after the US made the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. It is named after Ensign Sieur Jean Baptiste de Girardot (also spelled Girardeau or Girardat), a French officer stationed 1704–1720 at Kaskaskia in the Illinois Country of New France.
Land was purchased between Caruthers and Clark Avenue from the Wulfers family for a new Catholic high school. A groundbreaking ceremony was held on June 21, 1953, for a new building that would accommodate between 350 and 400 students. The new Cape Girardeau Catholic High School opened on September 13, 1954, with an enrollment of 211 students.