After the unexpected and informative detour to the Mark Twain Birthplace Site, I drove into Hannibal. Located 100 miles northeast of St, Louis, and reached by crossing the Mississippi River on the Mark Twain Memorial Bridge (natch) Hannibal was laid out as a town in 1819 by Moses Bates.
The community is best known, of course, as the boyhood home of author Mark Twain, and as the setting of his The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
