Hannibal History: First the Selmes block, then the McCooey block
At the northeast corner of Hill and Bird Streets, two businesses were dominant throughout Hannibal's earliest history. First, The Selmes...
Ordinance No. 52, Hannibal: No wooden buildings 1859
No wooden houses 02191859 I'll have to do a little more research to discover what prompted the Hannibal City Council to enact the...
Folklife Festival celebrates town's early citizens
I visited North Main Street in Hannibal this afternoon, on the very street where Sam Clemens played as a child, and where Tilden Selmes...