

Ed O'Neill: Veteran Hannibal sports writer ‘was on the field to feel the wind, cold, rain, mud,
MARY LOU MONTGOMERY Did Ed O’Neill, long-time sports editor for the Hannibal Courier-Post, and Lester Dimmitt, long-time owner and...


Bowles Clothiers: A Hannibal legacy
This photo shows the east side of the 100 block of North Main Street in 1959. Sonnenbergs Department Store is at left, and Bowles...


Rev. T.C. Fox launched church from Market St. grocery store
This is believed to be a photo of the P. Van Evercooren dry goods and grocery store, located at 2205 Market St., Hannibal, circa 1917,...


DeLaporte Shoe Store owner called foot doctor
John DeLaporte Sr., left, owner of the DeLaporte Shoe Store at 1801 Market St., works with his nephew, Ray DeLaporte. CONTRIBUTED...


Nerlich family businesses continued for nine decades
Located inside the former grocery store at 1905 Market was a State Farm Insurance office, owned by Edwin S. Wilson. Mr. Wilson retired in...


Midnight burglar alarmed West Side neighborhood
This is a facsimile of the area north of Market Street where the late-night robbery of the Van Evercooren property took place in August...


1891 Market Street fire reveals interesting West Side history
This side-by-side comparison shows Hannibal’s Market Street fire station in 1905, at left, and the current building owned by Brad and...


McIntyre’s agricultural expertise pays big dividends to Hannibal
Charles Wesley McIntyre graduated in 1920 from Dowagiac Union High School, Dowagiac, Michigan. (Yearbook photo accessed via Ancestry.com)...


Both immigrants, Union Street neighbors killed during Civil War
Current photo of 601 Union St., Hannibal, Mo. Photo contributed by Melanie Wasson. It was in this house (when it was just a one-story...


P. Gillett’s inventions contributed to Missouri’s early rail foundation
This photo, identified as Prosper J. Gillett, was originally shared to Ancestry.com by Shawn Hendrix. Prosper Gillett received a U.S....