| Mark Twain Birthplace State Historic Site | |
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| Location | Monroe County, Missouri, United States |
| Coordinates | 39°29′18″N 91°47′09″W / 39.4884°N 91.7857°W[1] |
| Area | 13 acres (5.3 ha)[2] |
| Elevation | 633 ft (193 m)[1] |
| Established | 1924[3] |
| Visitors | 59,002 (in 2022)[4] |
| Operator | Missouri Department of Natural Resources |
| Website | mostateparks |
Mark Twain Birthplace Cabin | |
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| NRHP reference No. | 69000116 |
| Added to NRHP | May 21, 1969 |
The Mark Twain Birthplace State Historic Site is a publicly owned property in Florida, Missouri, maintained by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, that preserves the cabin where the author Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in 1835.[5] The cabin is protected within a modern museum building that also includes a public reading room, several of Twain's first editions, a handwritten manuscript of his 1876 novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and furnishings from Twain's Connecticut home.[5] The historic site is adjacent to Mark Twain State Park on a peninsula at the western end of man-made Mark Twain Lake. The cabin was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.[6]
Samuel Clemens, later known by the pen name Mark Twain, was born in the two-room house on November 30, 1835.[7] The house was rented by his parents Jane Lampton Clemens (1803–1890) and John Marshall Clemens (1798–1847).[8] Clemens spent his first four years here until the family moved to a two-story clapboard house, now memorialized as the Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum in Hannibal, Missouri, in 1839.[9]
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References
- ^ a b "Mark Twain Birthplace State Historic Site". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ "Missouri State Park Advisory Board Annual Report 2008". Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved November 3, 2015.
- ^ "State Park Land Acquisition Summary". Missouri State Parks. Retrieved November 3, 2015.
- ^ "Missouri State Park Attendance For January - December, 2022" (PDF). Missouri State Parks. February 3, 2023.
- ^ a b "Mark Twain Birthplace State Historic Site". Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved November 16, 2012.
- ^ "Mark Twain Birthplace Cabin". NPGallery. National Park Service. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
- ^ Andrew Hoffman. "Inventing Mark Twain". The New York Times Company. Retrieved November 3, 2015.
- ^ Christie Graves Hamric (January 1, 1993). The Mark Twain Encyclopedia. Taylor & Francis. pp. 152–154. ISBN 978-0-8240-7212-4.
- ^ Martha L. Kusiak, Research Historian (April 10, 1969). "Mark Twain Birthplace Cabin" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form. Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved November 3, 2015.
External links
- Mark Twain Birthplace State Historic Site Missouri Department of Natural Resources
- Mark Twain State Park and Historic Site Map Missouri Department of Natural Resources
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