History Blog 

This photo, taken circa 1969, shows the newly revamped U.S. 61 north of Hannibal. If you zoom in on this photo, you will notice that many...

This portrait of Dr. M. Augusta Fairchild is included in: A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches edited...

Elinor Vere Tomlinson is pictured for her passport in 1918. Ancestry.com MARY LOU MONTGOMERY In April 1919, Elinor Vere Tomlinson’s...

This newspaper clipping shows Dr. and Mrs. J.N. Baskett on the occasion of their 50th wedding anniversary in 1938. MARY LOU MONTGOMERY...

The sloping hillside offering a spectacular view of the Mississippi River in Riverside Cemetery has long been the resting place for two...

Taken circa 1913, Nick Booth, on the right, is pictured at the L.C. Hendren farm, rural Marion County, Mo. Photo contributed by Linda...

Photo of Henry E. Stein, while he was a player for the Belleville, Ill., Clerks, during the 1890s. Photo contributed to Findagrave.com by...

Note: Doug Gregonis was (my husband) Eddie Montgomery's barber from the fall of 1968 (when Eddie returned to Hannibal from service with...

This 1952 photo of the businesses along the Market Street Wedge show the neighborhood where the wife of James H. Withers lived circa...

This 1908 subdivision plat map shows John B. Shepherd’s house, on Shepherd Place, and the land across the street on St. Mary’s Avenue,...