Marion County has an area of 434 square miles, embracing 277,760 acres of magnificent lands, with a population of 30,000, and having a Mississippi River front of thirty miles. The river is crossed by two magnificent iron railroad bridges-one of which, in the northern part of the county, being over one mile in length, and … Read more
The boundaries of this county begin in the middle of the main channel of the Mississippi river, at a point due east of the eastern termination of the line between townships numbered fifty-six and fifty-seven; thence west to the termination of said line; thence west with the last-mentioned line to the range line between ranges … Read more
An Extract from a Forthcoming Work to be Entitled “Twenty Four Years View of Palmyra and Marion County in Missouri” By J. P. Rutter Jan 1856 The general pressure that prevailed for several years during and succeeding the disasters that marked the unfortunate epoch of the college and its attachees, as we have before shown, … Read more
Raising the Levees Race Between the Water and the Workmen at Hannibal Hannibal, Mo., May 16, 1888 At 6:00 o’clock p.m. the river was twenty-one feet, and four inches higher than in 1881 when the levee broke, and still rising. All lower part of the city is submerged and business practically suspended. The Hannibal and … Read more
In the summer of 1832 Asiatic cholera made its appearance in the west, and was especially severe in St. Louis. It, however, failed to reach Marion county that year. The cold winter of 1832-3 it thought had destroyed all the germs of the dread pestilence and when the spring, of the latter year came on but little apprehension was felt by the people of this county that the fearful scourge would visit them. They were so wrong. One 3 June cholera struck with a vengeance. By the 15th of June 1833, the contagion began to abate, and by the the 1st of July it had entirely disappeared. During its prevalence in Palmyra, out of a population of about 600, there had died 105 persons, of whom 50 were whites and 55 were blacks.
Fifteen Hurt in a Collision Engineer Disobeyed the Rules and a Wreck was the Result Feb 9 1896, Hannibal, Mo Fifteen persons were more or less seriously hurt, and one cannot recover, as the result of a collision at 12:40 o’clock this afternoon, between an eastbound Wabash stock train and a St. Louis, Keokuk and Northwestern … Read more
Many Injured A St. Louis and Hannibal Train Derailed in Missouri St. Louis, May 14, 1895 A special from Felix, Mo., to the Post-Dispatch, says that at 8 o’clock this morning the south-bound passenger train on the St. Louis and Hannibal Railway was derailed by a broken rail two miles from here, and was thrown … Read more
December 21, 1857 On Sunday, 21st, a fire broke out in Hannibal, in the large three story building of Dr. Anderson, on Main, near the corner of Hill street. The first efforts were to save the large and valuable stocks of goods stored in the houses adjacent to, and in the burning building; and in … Read more
This combined railroad and highway bridge over the Mississippi river at Hannibal was completed under the administration of the “Hannibal Bridge Company,” formed by the consolidation of two companies –the “Pike County Bridge Company,” incorporated in. Illinois in ‘March, 1867, and organized June 4, 1869, with Alexander M Starne, president; and Ozias M. Hatch, secretary and … Read more
A recent issue of the National Miller contained a write-tip of some of the old water mills of Missouri, and among them was the old Bay Mill South of this city. The article, in part, is as follows: Perhaps one of the most noted of the early day grinding outfits was the Bay Mills, north … Read more