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Grand View Burial Park is a cemetery in Hannibal, Missouri, developed in 1934 as a memorial cemetery. [1] The first burial was on May 11, 1934. Two more burials were performed in May and 19 more during the rest of 1934. During an average year, approximately 225 burials are performed. [1]
The site of Hannibal was originally inhabited by various cultures of indigenous Native American tribes. Hannibal is home to Osterhout Mounds Park, a preservation of ancient Indian burial mounds. [7] The river community was the mid-19th-century boyhood home of author Samuel Langhorne Clemens (aka Mark Twain, 1835–1910).
Mark Twain Historic District is a national historic district located at Hannibal, Marion County, Missouri. The district encompasses 20 contributing buildings in the central business district of Hannibal. It developed between about 1840 and 1936. Located in the district is the separately listed Mark Twain Boyhood Home. Other notable buildings ...
Location of Marion County in Missouri. The following properties are listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Marion County, Missouri. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Marion County, Missouri, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are ...
Other notable contributing resources include Central Park with a war memorial monument and a life-size bronze statue of William Henry Hatch (1833-1894), City Hall (1909), old Missouri Guaranty Building (1894), Price Apartments (1904), YMCA (1910), Masonic Temple (1882), Park Methodist Church (1881, 1906), Retards Row (1855), Elks Building (1925 ...
Mark Twain Cave — originally McDowell's Cave — is a show cave located near Hannibal, Missouri. It was named for author Mark Twain whose real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Clemens lived in Hannibal from 1839 to 1853, age 4 to 17. It is the oldest operating show cave in the state, giving tours continuously since 1886. [1]
Marion County is a county located in the northeastern portion of Missouri.As of the 2020 census, the population was 28,525. [1] Its county seat is Palmyra. [2] Unique from most third-class counties in the state, Marion has two county courthouses, the second located in Hannibal. [3]
The district encompasses 148 contributing buildings in a predominantly residential section of Hannibal. It developed between about 1850 and 1950, and includes representative examples of Federal , Italianate , Late Victorian , Colonial Revival , and Bungalow / American Craftsman architecture.