Hannibal, Missouri

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Hannibal, Missouri

Hannibal is a city in Marion

Marion County, Missouri

Marion County is a county located in the U.S. state of Missouri. As of 2000, the population was 28,289. Its county seat is Palmyra, Missouri. The county was organized in 1826 and named for Gen....
and Ralls

Ralls County, Missouri

Ralls County is a county located in the U.S. state of Missouri. As of 2000, the population was 9,626. Its county seat is New London, Missouri....
counties in the U.S. state

U.S. state

A U.S. state is any one of the 50 state of the United States that share sovereignty with the federal government of the United States . Because of this shared sovereignty, an United States is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of Domicile ....
of Missouri

Missouri

Missouri is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States of the United States bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska....
. Hannibal is located at the intersection of Interstate 72

Interstate 72

Interstate 72 is an Interstate Highway in the midwestern United States. Its western terminus is in Hannibal, Missouri, at an intersection with U.S....
and U.S. Routes 36

U.S. Route 36

U.S. Route 36 is an east-west United States highway that runs for 1,414 miles from Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado to Uhrichsville, Ohio....
and 61

U.S. Route 61

U.S. Route 61 is the official designation for a United States highway that runs from New Orleans, Louisiana, to the city of Wyoming, Minnesota....
, approximately north of St. Louis

St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis is an independent city in the U.S. state of Missouri, located near the confluence of the Mississippi River and the Missouri River. St....
. The population was 17,757 at the 2000 census

United States Census, 2000

File:US-Census-2000Logo.svgThe Twenty-Second United States Census, known as Census 2000 and conducted by the United States Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2% over the 248,709,873 persons Enumeration during the United States Census, 1990....
. The Hannibal Micropolitan Statistical Area

Hannibal micropolitan area

The Hannibal Micropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of two counties in northeast Missouri, anchored by the city of Hannibal, Missouri....
is composed of Marion and Ralls Counties.

Transportation
Interstate 72

Interstate 72

Interstate 72 is an Interstate Highway in the midwestern United States. Its western terminus is in Hannibal, Missouri, at an intersection with U.S....
was extended into Hannibal across the Mark Twain Memorial Bridge

Mark Twain Memorial Bridge

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Hannibal is a city in Marion

Marion County, Missouri

Ralls County, Missouri

Ralls County is a county located in the U.S. state of Missouri. As of 2000, the population was 9,626. Its county seat is New London, Missouri....
counties in the U.S. state

U.S. state

Missouri

Interstate 72

Interstate 72 is an Interstate Highway in the midwestern United States. Its western terminus is in Hannibal, Missouri, at an intersection with U.S....
and U.S. Routes 36

U.S. Route 36

U.S. Route 36 is an east-west United States highway that runs for 1,414 miles from Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado to Uhrichsville, Ohio....
and 61

U.S. Route 61

U.S. Route 61 is the official designation for a United States highway that runs from New Orleans, Louisiana, to the city of Wyoming, Minnesota....
, approximately north of St. Louis

St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis is an independent city in the U.S. state of Missouri, located near the confluence of the Mississippi River and the Missouri River. St....
. The population was 17,757 at the 2000 census

United States Census, 2000

Hannibal micropolitan area

Transportation

Interstate 72

Mark Twain Memorial Bridge

The Mark Twain Memorial Bridge is the name for two bridges over the Mississippi River at Hannibal, Missouri, childhood home of Mark Twain, for whom the bridge is named....
in 2000. Interstate 72 extends west to the intersection with U.S. Route 61. Future plans call for extending Interstate 72 west along U.S. Route 36 to Cameron, MO giving Hannibal an east-west link connecting Kansas City to Springfield, IL.

U.S. Route 61 is a four lane divided highway

Divided Highway

Divided Highway is a compilation album by American rock band The Doobie Brothers, released in 2003. . All tracks are taken from the albums Cycles and Brotherhood ....
that connects to Saint Louis to the south and is part of the Avenue of the Saints

Avenue of the Saints

The Avenue of the Saints is a highway that connects St. Paul, Minnesota, Minnesota, and St. Louis, Missouri, Missouri....
corridor that links to Saint Paul, MN.

Hannibal Regional Airport

Hannibal Regional Airport

Hannibal Regional Airport is a public airport located west of Hannibal, Missouri, in Marion County, Missouri, Missouri. The airport is used for general aviation with no commercial airlines....
, (formerly Hannibal Municipal Airport) was nammed William P. Lear Field in 2003 in honor of the inventor of the Lear Jet

Lear Jet

Learjet is a manufacturer of business jets for civilian and military use. It was founded in the late 1950s by Bill Lear as Swiss American Aviation Corporation....
. The airport is located west of downtown and has one runway 4,400' x 75'.

Freight railroad tracks link Hannibal in all directions: Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) tracks lead north to the Quad Cities

Quad Cities

The Quad Cities is a geographic region of the Mid-Mississippi Valley of the United States that includes several communities in the states of Iowa and Illinois....
and south to Saint Louis. Norfolk Southern

Norfolk Southern Railway

The Norfolk Southern Railway is a major Class I railroad in the United States, owned by the Norfolk Southern Corporation. The company operates 21,500 route miles in 22 eastern states, the District of Columbia and the province of Ontario, Canada....
(NS) tracks lead west to Kansas City and east to Springfield, IL.

History and landmarks

Although the site of Hannibal was previously occupied by early settlers and Native American tribes, the city of Hannibal was founded by Moses Bates in 1819. Although the city initially grew slowly to a population of only 30 by 1830, access to Mississippi river and railroad transportation fueled growth to 2,020 by 1850. Hannibal had gained "city" status by 1845 The city served as a bustling regional marketing center for livestock and grain as well as other products produced locally, such as cement and shoes, throughout the remainder of the 19th century and on to the present time.

The community is best known as the boyhood home of author Mark Twain

Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an United Statesmerican author and humorist. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer....
and as the setting of his The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain, is a popular 1876 novel about a young boy growing up in the antebellum Southern United States on the Mississippi River in the fictional town of St....
and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel written by Mark Twain and published in 1884. It is commonly regarded one of the Great American Novels, and is one of the first major American novels written in the vernacular, characterized by regionalism ....
. with numerous historical sites related to Mark Twain and sites depicted in his fiction. Hannibal draws both American and international tourists. Some local residents have criticized the town's efforts to attract tourists, comparing it with Disneyland. However, most Hannibal residents enjoy the visitors and the town at large enjoys much success through tourist revenue.

The town has other distinctions as well. In the Broadway

Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
musical Damn Yankees
Damn Yankees

Damn Yankees is a musical comedy with a book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop and music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross . The story is a Works based on Faust of the Faust legend set during the 1950s in Washington, D.C., during a time when the New York Yankees dominated Major League Baseball....
, Hannibal was the hometown of the protagonist's assumed persona. Hannibal was also the birthplace of singer and actor Cliff Edwards

Cliff Edwards

Cliff Edwards , also known as "Ukelele Ike", was an American singer and musician who enjoyed considerable popularity in the 1920s and early 1930s, specializing in jazzy renditions of pop standards and novelty tunes....
("Ukelele Ike") and 'The Unsinkable Molly' Brown

Margaret Brown

Margaret Brown, married and maiden names Tobin , more widely known as Maggie Brown or Molly Brown, was an United States socialite, philanthropy, and activism who became famous as one of the survivors of the sinking of the RMS Titanic....
. Other natives include inventor Bill Lear

Bill Lear

William Powell Lear was an United States inventor and businessman. He is best known for founding the Lear Jet Corporation, a manufacturer of business jets....
and NBA

National Basketball Association

The National Basketball Association is North America's premier professional men's basketball league, composed of thirty teams: twenty-nine in the United States and one in Canada....
basketball coach Cotton Fitzsimmons

Cotton Fitzsimmons

Lowell "Cotton" Fitzsimmons was a college basketball and National Basketball Association basketball coach. A native of Hannibal, Missouri, USA, he attended and played basketball at Hannibal-LaGrange Junior College in Hannibal and Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas....
. The Mark Twain Memorial Lighthouse was constructed in 1933 and has been lit at three separate times by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President John F. Kennedy, and President Bill Clinton. Rockcliffe Mansion

Rockcliffe Mansion

Rockcliffe Mansion is a mansion, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, on a rocky knoll in Hannibal, Missouri, USA. The 30-room house was built between 1898 and 1900 by Scotland immigrant and lumber baron John J....
sits upon a knoll in Hannibal, is listed on the National Register of Historic places.

Webcam/HannibalCam

The HannibalCam.com webcam showcases both North and South Main Street of the "Historic District" live online. The camera's downtown location is 123 N. Main Street on the roof of The Main Street Kitchen Store.

Geography

Hannibal is located at (39.704065, -91.377378). It is adjacent to the Mississippi River

Mississippi River

The Mississippi River is the longest river in the United States, with a length of from its source in Lake Itasca in Minnesota to its mouth in the Gulf of Mexico....
.

According to the United States Census Bureau

United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau is the government agency that is responsible for the United States Census. It also gathers other national demographic and economic data....
, the city has a total area of 15.1 square miles (39.1 km²), of which, 14.6 square miles (37.8 km²) of it is land and 0.5 square miles (1.2 km²) of it (3.12%) is water.

Demographics

As of the census

Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population....
of 2000, there were 17,757 people, 7,017 households, and 4,554 families residing in the city. The population density

Population density

Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans....
was 1,215.3 people per square mile (469.3/km²). There were 7,886 housing units at an average density of 539.7/sq mi (208.4/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 90.61% White, 6.57% African American, 0.35% Native American, 0.35% Asian, 0.07% Pacific Islander, 0.25% from other races

Race (United States Census)

Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, as defined by the United States Census Bureau and the Federal Office of Management and Budget , are Self-concept data items in which residents choose the Race in the United States or races with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not they are of Hispanic or Latino origin ....
, and 1.79% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.13% of the population. 25.9% were of American

United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, 23.8% German, 10.9% Irish

Irish people

The Irish people are a Western European ethnic group who originate in Ireland, in north western Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolgs, Tuatha D? Danann and the Milesians ?the last group supposedly representing the "pure" Gaelic a...
and 10.0% English

English people

The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England who speak English language in England. The English identity as a people is of early medieval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn....
ancestry according to Census 2000.

There were 7,017 households out of which 32.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 48.0% were married couples

Marriage

Marriage is a social, spirituality, or law union of individuals. This union may also be called matrimony, while the ceremony that marks its beginning is usually called a wedding and the married status created is sometimes called wedlock....
living together, 13.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 35.1% were non-families. 30.6% of all households were made up of individuals and 15.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.40 and the average family size was 2.98.

In the city the population was spread out with 25.8% under the age of 18, 10.5% from 18 to 24, 26.3% from 25 to 44, 20.6% from 45 to 64, and 16.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females there were 86.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 81.8 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $29,892, and the median income for a family was $37,264. Males had a median income of $30,677 versus $20,828 for females. The per capita income

Per capita income

Per capita income means how much each individual receives, in monetary terms, of the yearly income generated in the country. This is what each citizen is to receive if the yearly national income is divided equally among everyone....
for the city was $16,902. About 11.3% of families and 14.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 18.2% of those under age 18 and 10.8% of those age 65 or over.

Education

Hannibal High School was founded in 1896. The current building was erected in 1932. the current enrollment is 1232 ninth through twelfth graders. The athletic teams are named the "Pirates" and play in the North Central Missouri Conference of the Missouri State High School Sports Association. As of 2008 the principal is Ryan Sharkey. The school has a foreign language club, Espancais, a Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Future Teachers of America, Young Democrats, Future Farmers of America, DECA, Key Club, and Natural Helpers (a peer helping group) as well as a wide array of other clubs.

Hannibal-LaGrange College

Hannibal-LaGrange College

Hannibal-LaGrange College is a Private university, Christianity college located in Hannibal, Missouri. The college is affiliated with the Missouri Baptist Convention, which is part of the Southern Baptist Convention....
is a four-year, Christian liberal arts college accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. Founded in 1858 in LaGrange, Missouri, the campus moved downriver to Hannibal in 1928. Dr. Woodrow Burt was elected the 16th president of Hannibal-LaGrange College on February 10, 1995.

MACC Hannibal Area Higher Education Center is a two year community college established in 1999. Currently housed at 109 Virginia on the second floor, the community is raising funds to build a full campus. MACC Higher Education Center offers a full Associates of Arts degree. Dr. Evelyn Jorgenson is the president of MACC. Wendy Johnson is director of the Hannibal site.

Transportation

Major Highways

I-72
Interstate 72

Interstate 72 is an Interstate Highway in the midwestern United States. Its western terminus is in Hannibal, Missouri, at an intersection with U.S....
US 36
U.S. Route 36

U.S. Route 36 is an east-west United States highway that runs for 1,414 miles from Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado to Uhrichsville, Ohio....
US 61
U.S. Route 61

U.S. Route 61 is the official designation for a United States highway that runs from New Orleans, Louisiana, to the city of Wyoming, Minnesota....

Missouri Department of Transportation -

Hannibal residents

Jake Beckley
Jake Beckley

Jacob Peter Beckley , nicknamed "Eagle Eye", was a Major League Baseball player at the turn of the 20th century. He was born in Hannibal, Missouri....
, major league baseball
Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball is the highest level of play in American professional baseball. Specifically, Major League Baseball refers to the organization that operates the National League and the American League, by means of a joint organizational structure that has developed gradually between them since 1903 ....
player
James Carroll Beckwith
James Carroll Beckwith

James Carroll Beckwith was an American portrait painter.He was born at Hannibal, Missouri, on 23 September 1852. He studied in the National Academy of Design, New York City, of which he afterwards became a member, and in Paris under Carolus Duran....
Margaret Brown
Margaret Brown

Margaret Brown, married and maiden names Tobin , more widely known as Maggie Brown or Molly Brown, was an United States socialite, philanthropy, and activism who became famous as one of the survivors of the sinking of the RMS Titanic....
, passenger on the Titanic, the unsinkable Molly Brown.
Robert Coontz
Robert Coontz

Robert Edward Coontz was an admiral in the United States Navy, who sailed with the Great White Fleet and served as the second Chief of Naval Operations....
Cliff Edwards
Cliff Edwards

Cliff Edwards , also known as "Ukelele Ike", was an American singer and musician who enjoyed considerable popularity in the 1920s and early 1930s, specializing in jazzy renditions of pop standards and novelty tunes....
, the voice of Disney's Jiminy Cricket
Jiminy Cricket

Jiminy Cricket is the Walt Disney version of "The Talking Cricket" , a fictional character created by Carlo Collodi for his classic novel The Adventures of Pinocchio, which was adapted into Pinocchio ....
Harry Richard Landis
Harry Richard Landis

Harry Richard Landis was, at age 108, the older of the last two United States World War I veterans. The final one is Frank Buckles. John Babcock, a naturalized American, served in the Canadian Forces Land Force Command during the war, and also survived Landis....
, one of the last surviving World War I
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
veterans was born near Hannibal.
George Poage
George Poage

George Coleman Poage was the first African American athlete to win a medal in the Olympic Games, winning two bronze medals at the 1904 games in St....
Benjamin Prentiss
Benjamin Prentiss

Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss was an United States soldier and politician. He fought in the Mexican-American War and on the Union side of the American Civil War, rising to the rank of Major general ....
Scott Sanders
Scott Sanders (baseball player)

Scott Gerald Sanders is a former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher who played from ?. In his career, Sanders played for the San Diego Padres , Seattle Mariners , Detroit Tigers , and Chicago Cubs ....
, Baseball player
Larry Thompson
Larry Thompson

Larry Dean Thompson was a United States Deputy Attorney General under President of the United States George W. Bush until August 2003. While Deputy U.S....
was born in Hannibal
Mark Twain
Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an United Statesmerican author and humorist. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer....
(Samuel L. Clemens)

Fictional Hannibal residents

Sherman T. Potter
Sherman T. Potter

Colonel Sherman Tecumseh Potter was a fictional character from the M*A*S*H television show. He was portrayed by Harry Morgan.At the end of the show's third season, McLean Stevenson had left the series, and his character, Henry Blake, died on his way home....
, character in the TV series M*A*S*H
M*A*S*H (TV series)

M*A*S*H is an United States television series developed by Larry Gelbart, adapted from the 1970 in film feature film MASH . The series is a medical drama/black comedy that was produced by 20th Television Fox for CBS....
.
Allison (Liberty Maid) from Josh and S.A.M.
Josh and S.A.M.

Josh and S.A.M. is a 1993 in film US drama-comedy film revolving around two brothers who hate each other and how they react to their parents' divorce....
, 1993 film about two runaway boys fleeing to Canada.
Joe Hardy, from the musical, Damn Yankees
Damn Yankees

Damn Yankees is a musical comedy with a book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop and music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross . The story is a Works based on Faust of the Faust legend set during the 1950s in Washington, D.C., during a time when the New York Yankees dominated Major League Baseball....
. A popular song from the musical was called, "Shoeless Joe from Hannibal, Mo"
Chris Dennis, from the movie "Nathaniel Neverwas"

Attractions

Riverview Park - of wooded land and scenic views of the Riverfront.
Mark Twain Memorial Lighthouse - The only lighthouse built inland features a panoramic view of Hannibal and the Mississippi River.
Mark Twain Cave - World Famous Mark Twain cave.
Cameron Cave - Missouri's newest show cave.
John Garth's Woodside Mansion - Historic 1870's Victorian mansion is Missouri's highest rated and voted Bed and Breakfast.
Tom & Becky Appearances - Local children are chosen to portray the famous literary couple in local appearances.
Tom Sawyer Diorama - 16 Hand Carved Scenes from the Book, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" & The Lollipop Guild Candy Store
Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum Properties - Tours are available for the boyhood home, museum, interpretive center, Huckleberry Finn house, Becky Thatcher house, J.M. Clemens Justice of the peace office, and Grant's Drug Store.
Mark Twain Mississippi Riverboat - Cruises available.
Rockcliffe Mansion - A turn of the century Mansion.
Molly Brown Birthplace & Museum Home of Titanic survivor.
Sawyer's Creek Fun Park - Amusement complex on the riverfront.
Hannibal Rocks Offroad Park:

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External links

Hannibal LaGrange-College-pages