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Mark Twain only lived here for 13 years, but many of his most famous stories were inspired by this humble Midwestern city. A visit to Hannibal today, with its excellent museums, preserved historic ...

When Ron Powers was growing up in Hannibal, Mo., in the 1940s and 1950s, he would walk to the town’s historic district with a friend and marvel at the variety of license plates on visitors’ cars.

Reporting from Hannibal, Mo. — It was long after dark when Henry Sweets brought me to Hannibal’s Old Baptist Cemetery, “a graveyard of the old-fashioned Western kind.” No moon. Ragged weeds, crumbling ...

Although Mark Twain's remains were laid to rest in Elmira, N.Y., more than a century ago, his spirit lives on, as evidenced by the thousands of admirers who descend each year on the author's hometown ...

I went to explore Hannibal because I wanted to learn more about Mark Twain, but I quickly came to realize there is more to this city than the famous author (but Twain fans will not be disappointed).

A site that Mark Twain once called "a heavenly place for a boy" in northeast Missouri will be the focus of a privately run archaeological dig this summer. Karen A. Hunt, 67, owns property outside of ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Hannibal, Missouri, and Hartford, Connecticut, have little in common geographically, culturally and historically. One could ...

Samuel Clemens, who is said to have taken his pen name Mark Twain from the cries of riverboat crewmen, found the inspiration for his classic works while growing up in the river town of Hannibal, Mo.

DOOLITTLE, Mo. (KY3) - Firefighters with the Doolittle Fire Protection District worked an early morning brush fire in Mark Twain National Forest. The Doolittle Fire Chief says they can’t be sure it ...

Multiple points of data, all spelled out below, show that mentions of this quote with Twain's name appeared to be born on the internet during or prior to the year 2012. On Oct. 30, 2023, the Boycott ...