Chillicothe, MO: Wandering Walks of Wonder Slow TV Walking Tour 4K

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Tucked into Northern Missouri’s lush, rolling hills sits a slice of times gone by. The wonderful main street in downtown Chillicothe is great to walk around. The beautiful turn-of-the-century buildings are lovingly restored and maintained. Known as the Home of Sliced Bread, Chillicothe has managed to maintain its small town heritage and storied locations while offering modern amenities and a budding food scene.

Not to be missed are the 25 murals on the sides and fronts of many buildings. Many of these murals take up an entire wall!

Yes, Chillicothe is the Home of Sliced Bread! Invented by Iowa inventor, Otto Rohwedder, the bread slicer was put into practice in 1928 in beautiful downtown Chillicothe. A product of the Chillicothe Baking Company, it was sliced on a machine called the Rohwedder Bread Slicer. The massive unit, approximately five feet long and three feet high, was a bread slicing machine. And, nowhere in the world were bakers selling sliced loaves of bread. But, a Chillicothe baker, who was on the verge of bankruptcy, took a chance on the invention and on July 7, 1928, put the first loaves of sliced bread ever made on the shelves of Chillicothe grocery stores. From that moment on, sliced bread became a part of history–a history that began right here, in Chillicothe.