Hannibal, Missouri and Mark Twain

Hannibal, in northeastern Missouri, is a river community best known as the 19th century boyhood home of the author Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain). The settings of his novels “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” and “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” are inspired by this town. There are many buildings and sites associated with Mark Twain in town. Also, Molly Brown, known as the "unsinkable Molly Brown", a survivor of the RMS Titanic, was born here and there is a museum for her.

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We didn’t pay for the Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum (can do a virtual tour on line), but we did walk around the buildings, to the Glascock’s Landing to see the Mark Twain Riverboat (which was closed), and climbed the 244 steps up to the Mark Twain Memorial Lighthouse. (For those of you not wanting to climb 244 steps, you can drive most of the way up. We found this out once we got there.) We also went to the Hannibal History Museum to learn more about the town and area.



These are just a few of the pictures taken that day. For more of Hannibal and Mark Twain, please click here.

Mississippi Riverfront Campground, Canton, MO

Mississippi Riverfront Campground is a city campground in Canton, Missouri along the Mississippi River. There are 23 sites, #1-10 are electric and water, #11-23 are electric, water and sewer. The price is $20 for any of them. There is a sewer dump and porta-potty. The sites have a picnic table and fire ring. We were in site #12 for two nights. We were able to get 10 TV channels and had Verizon cell coverage.

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They do take reservations through City Hall, but we got there on a Saturday so they weren’t open. There is a sign posted with a reservation list along with some envelopes for self-pay. There were only a few spots taken for the weekend so we just picked an empty spot.



We’ve been watching barges go through the Lock & Dam. The one bad thing about the campground is that it is right by the railroad tracks, very close, and very noisy; not constantly, but throughout the day and night.