Steam locomotive engineer spent 40 years on the rails
This postcard image shows the yards and roundhouse where Phil Fetter would have worked during the later years of his career. In 1903, the...
Growing, shaping Bonsai trees a year-round hobby
Mike Wojick works with a plant which he started in 2021. He carefully tends to each plant, encouraging growth and shaping at it matures....
Marion County native early college president
Rev. George F. Ayres, Ph.D. 1903. Received $10,000 from Andrew Carnegie to build Jubilee Hall in 1907. The residence hall was renamed...
Clements had pivotal West End home site
This picture, taken in October 1983, shows Broadway Extension, prior to the construction of the Grand Avenue cut through which linked...
Arthur Hoke followed family fishing tradition
Look to the far right, and you will see a horse-drawn buggy and a sign painted on a nearby business, “FISH.” This was the site of the A....
Borgmeyer family worked together at A&W drive-in
Three A&W rootbeer mugs, representing the logos as they evolved over the years. Photo contributed by Glenda Borgmeyer Dixon. MARY LOU...
MP unit offers salute to Gold Star Families
Members of the 3175th MP Company Detachment offered salutes to the Gold Star Families aboard the Mark Twain Riverboat, as it launched at...
Leonard family lives long, along St. Mary’s Avenue
The white house, at right, and the two story brick, at its side, were houses owned by the Leonard family during the early population...
Mark Twain expansion among school enhancements in 1925
This undated photo, from the Steve Chou collection, shows the front of the school, facing west, after the 1925 building expansion....
Community, beyond mourn Ahrens' death
In March 2014, the Missouri Court of Appeals for the Eastern District heard oral arguments in Hannibal, and afterwards answered questions...