It was one of the city’s earliest brick plants and at one time one of the most important. While brick making never was a large industry here, for many years the city was not without such a plant. It was not until the modern trend of industry to volume production began to get more and more of business that Hannibal was left entirely without its brick factories.
When Mr. Samuel Withers first came to Miller Township, only a few settlers were here — Webb James Fullilove, Samuel Lefever, John M. Turner, Cyrus Ritchie, Major Asa James, Robert Smarr, Richard Gentry, and later Stephen Glascock. Mr. Ritchie built a woolen mill and also a grist mill. After the railroad was built in 1859, … Read more
The village of Warren, 10 miles north, is three years older than Monroe City. It was laid out in 1854 and contained 12 blocks of 10 lots each and had five streets running north and south and two east and west. The first house was built by George Edelin and Wilson McElroy for a store … Read more
In 1844 this community was known as Dunlap’s Shop. David Dunlap had the blacksmith shop and store. Then the store was transferred to Mr. Phil Hutchison, who had a store on the south side of the highway. In 1875 Gerry Vaughn bought the shop and store where he worked until 1937. North of the lane … Read more
The village of Emerson stands on the southeast corner of section 20, in township 59-7. It has long been known as a convenient trading point, post-office, etc., and now contains stores, shops, etc., sufficient to supply the trade of the community. The town was laid out January 20, 1837, and first called Houston, in honor … Read more
Hamlet in Missouri Exists by Spoken Word Only Technically, Smileyville doesn’t even exist anymore. It’s just a stretch of road about five miles northeast of Palmyra. Where once a blacksmith shop, general store and high school stood are now empty lots and fields. If you bomb down Marion County Road 321 west from U.S. 61, … Read more
First there was Darrtown, then Stringtown, and now Oakwood. Its first settlers were William and Sarah (Brown) Darr, from Kentucky. They came when Hannibal had only seven families. William Darr bought a large tract of land, and his two-room log cabin is the center of the house standing back of the old Washington School at … Read more
The little hamlet of Benbow, which stands on the northwest quarter of section 13, township 59-8, was originally called Midway. Its founder was Thomas Adams, who established a general store or trading post at the site thirty years ago, and continued to do business at this point for many years. The name was changed with the … Read more
This Article originally appeared in the February-March 2000 issue of Missouri Life Magazine Just as HANNIBAL inspired the sleepy river towns of MARK TWAIN’S fiction, it now piques the imagination of ENTREPRENEURS, thousands of TOURISTS, HISTORIANS, budding WRITERS, and city PLANNERS, not to mention the 18,004 people who make Hannibal their HOME. Although it is … Read more
Names of the children that attended Woodland School 1909-1910 Girls Names Age Boys Names Age Ruby Jackson 6 Sherril Shuckman 5 Ruby Snyder 6 Gilbert Erdman 8 Hazel Keller 11 Fred Sweeny 7 Dorthy Bittleston 10 Luther Voeple 9 Elva Shuckmann 11 Arthur Keller 7 Carolyn Jackson 10 Hiram Watters 8 Carrie Snyder 10 McIntire … Read more