Lasting memories exist of Central Park bandstand
This undated post card shows a view of the Central Park band stand, from Fourth Street. OnFrom this view, you can see the door to the...
1800s entrepreneur sold seltzer in a shop on St. Mary’s Avenue
Joseph Schoknecht advertised his soda and seltzer factory in the Hannibal Daily Courier, May 15, 1882. It describes the location at...
Mystic Lodge purchases church building in 1906
The old Broadway Methodist Church, located on the southeast corner of Sixth and Broadway, was constructed in 1881 at a cost of $15,000,...
Kennedy brothers ‘moved mountains’
This old newspaper image from the St. Louis Post Dispatch of Sunday, June 23, 1901, shows the Kennedy Brothers steam shovel moving dirt...
Mainland built park, ballfield to generate street car revenue
This photo, from 1905, shows Car #22 at the site of Athletic Park. The baseball park, operated by the Hannibal Railway and Electric...
Sisters maintain long-term ownership of 210 Broadway
This photo, taken from the southeast corner of Main and Broadway in the late 1860s, shows a portion of the 200 block of Broadway as it...
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...