History Blog 

Ilasco, Mo. began in the early 1900s as a company town for the Atlas Portland Cement Company, which later became Continental Cement...

Megan Rapp began her new job as executive director of the Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum on May 1. Contributed photo. MARY LOU...

The Second Christian Church, located at 1616 West Broadway, Hannibal, Mo., on Aug. 11, 1933. Herring Studio photo; J. Allen Ballard,...

Descendants of Gladys Cruikshank Warren gathered together last weekend at Rockcliffe Mansion for a reunion in Hannibal. Gladys was the...

In February, 1983, Esley Hamilton wrote a Status Report for a project known as “Identification and Protection of Historic Resources.” In...

Gladys Cruikshank Warren is pictured with her three sons on Feb. 6, 1940, in St. Paul, Minn. The sons are, from left, Roger, John and...

Early image of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. As of 1924, The Sisters of St. Francis, a corporation of Maryville, Mo., owned lots 50-57 in the...

MARY LOU MONTGOMERY 2024 In the mid 1960s, while they were both in their teens, brothers Becker and Robert Spaun, in a joint venture,...

Jennifer Cerretti, contributed photo MARY LOU MONTGOMERY Hope in Hand Moving and Household Services is an upstart Hannibal business that...

Leland Yager, center of the photo, with his hand outreached, poses in front of the Phillips 66 station that he co-owned for a period...