Saturday, October 11, 2008

Hannibal, MO

Hannibal, Missouri (click for a link to an aerial view photo of Hannibal) is a small town of just under 20,000 residents on the Mississippi River a few miles downstream from Quincy, Illinois. The town is probably best town as the childhood home of Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). It served as the inspiration for the hometown of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Becky Tatcher, and the other characters Twain wrote about in his famous stories.

This is Mark Twain's boyhood home. It is now a museum with a visitor's center.


Buildings along the main street of Hannibal. There are several gift shops, candy shops, galleries, and other shops catering to tourists.


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