History Blog 

This is a rare image of the VIP rail car, Lycoming, pictured circa 1890. Hannibal resident, Elijah Spencer, a long-time porter for the...

Billy Yargus of Hannibal is holding one of the four turkey callers marketed under his name. He, with assistance of his wife and several...

This is an early postcard featuring the Immaculate Conception Church. The building, constructed in the early 1870s, formerly served the...

Eddie Bogue, who spent 37 years in law enforcement, first at Hannibal, then Palmyra, retired in 2024. He is now working for...

Nearly complete, on the southwest corner of Bird and Fifth in Hannibal, is a ‘Steamboat Carpenter Gothic Revival’ house, constructed...

My dear friend, Mary Huetter, gifted her childhood doll house to my grandchildren. It has been a source of entertainment and joy for...

The American Legion Hall will once again host the annual Gala Madi Gras, a fund-raising event to raise both money for, and awareness of,...

Nettie Bishop (1857-1929) of Hannibal played a cousin to Sir Joseph Porter in a local production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s H.M.S....

Hannah Bogue-Baker, left, a Hannibal native, will cheer for the Kansas City Chiefs at the Super Bowl on Sunday, in New Orleans. She is...

The Hopkins sisters, at left, Emma Louise Hopkins Cartlidge, and at right, Frances M. Hopkins Flinn. Portraits by the Deane Brothers,...