Home of Sliced Bread - Chillicothe, Missouri

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Home of Sliced Bread - Chillicothe, Missouri

In this beautiful town back in 1928 a world altering event took place, the first sliced bread from the bakery was offered for sale..that’s right, in Chillicothe the bread slicing machine invented by an Iowa inventor, Otto Rohwedder, was installed in a bakery that was on the verge of bankruptcy and changed how the citizens expected their bread to be prepared for purchase!

Now, others may say that the first sliced bread came from St. Louis, but it didn’t.  A man from St. Louis did take the idea and run with it, but the first patent was granted to the guys from Chillicothe.

There are souvenirs available in the different stores throughout Chillicothe that you can purchase and always have something to go along with the saying "greatest thing since sliced bread."