History Blog 

​ Steve Holland of Iowa City, Iowa, started his career as a sports writer for the Hannibal Courier-Post during the early 1970s. Eight...

I was in Dr. Linda Cooke's office this week, overseeing a family member's surgery. She was using an instrument that looks like a little...

A street carnival, featuring a jitney dance, was planned in Hannibal on May 23, 1919, located on North Fifth Street, between Broadway and...

Stevens Plowman, right, and his father, Bayard Plowman, as photographed in 1991. Stevens Plowman, who worked 47 years for the combined...

I found this brochure contained within Steve Chou's vast photo archives, and I thought you might enjoy it as much as I have. Washington...

Brad Tutor of rural New London, Mo., uses his grandfather's vintage 1930s-era sawmill to cut a white pine cant into two 4x8s.

Jim Tutor, left, removes the cut lumber from the conveyor, after his son, Brad, right, cuts side lumber from a white pine log. Brad is a...

Steve Holland was fresh out of journalism school at the University of Iowa in 1974, when he landed his first newspaper job. Then-Hannibal...

Read about the first cross-state rails of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad, circa 1857, as described in the Chillicothe...

Cream Ridge, a long ago abandoned settlement about eight miles north of Chillicothe, Missouri, provided the setting for the ceremonial...