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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13XN_mark-twains-fathers-law-office_Hannibal-MO.html
Young Sam Clemens (Mark Twain) saw a dead man on the floor in here one night. Sam went out at a window, taking the sash along with him. "I didn't need the sash," he recalled, "but it was handier to take it than it was to leave it. So I took it. I …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13XL_mark-twain_Hannibal-MO.html
Like all of us, Mark Twain told stories about his childhood in order to understand who he had become as an adult.As a writer, Mark Twain started with the raw material of his own experiences to make stories that still amuse and challenge us today.S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13XK_hannibal_Hannibal-MO.html
The boyhood home of Mark Twain. The Clemens home and a State statue in Riverview Park stand as memorials to the great humorist. At Cardiff Hill stands a statue of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. Twain's cave and the islands made famous in his books are …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11H0_palmyra-confederate-monument_Palmyra-MO.html
Erected to the memory ofCapt. Thomas A. SidenorWillis T. BakerThomas HumstonMorgan BixlerJohn Y. Mc PheetersHiram T. SmithHerbert HudsonJohn M. WadeFrancis M. LearEleazer Lake
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11GZ_palmyra_Palmyra-MO.html
Side A:Palmyra, founded in 1819, was for many years the northernmost town on the Salt River Trail from St. Charles to the Des Moines River. A Federal Land Office for the Salt River area located here, 1824 - 58, led all others in the state in the s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11GY_palmyra-massacre_Palmyra-MO.html
The Palmyra MassacreThe Palmyra Massacre was a grim ending to Confederate Col. Joseph Porter's 1862 recruiting campaign in northeast Missouri. Besides recruiting local men for the Confederate army, Porter attacked Union outposts and patrols all su…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOA0_potawatomi-emigration_Palmyra-MO.html
Indiana to Kansas 1838On Oct. 11, 1838, 850 Potawatomi Indians camped at Pleasant Spring near Palmyra on the forced removal from Northern Indiana to Eastern Kansas. They passed through Palmyra at 10 o'clock October 12. That night they camped at Le…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKBD_george-shannon_Palmyra-MO.html
This marker commemorates George Shannon, the youngest member of the Corps of Discovery, on the occasion of the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
He died in Palmyra, Missouri while on legal business, August 30, 1836, and is buried …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2L1_tom-sawyer-and-huck-finn-at-the-foot-of-cardiff-hill_Hannibal-MO.html
(On the left side, when viewed from Main Street): The monument presented to HannibalbyGeo. A. Mahan - Ida D. MahanandDulany Mahan1925(On the right side, when viewed from Main Street): Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn at the Foot of Cardiff Hill
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2L0_cardiff-hill_Hannibal-MO.html
This is the foot of Cardiff Hill, made famous in Mark Twain's books "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn." On the hill, Tom, Huck, and their gang played and roamed at will.