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By: Meghan Saar 03/01/2008
Walking Tom Sawyer in Missouri
Hannibal is home to Mark Twain’s Boyhood Home and Museum; the New Mark Twain Museum; Judge Clemens’ Law Office; Pilaster House where Judge Clemens died; Grant’s Drug Store, which was stocked with Aunt Polly’s medicines in Tom Sawyer; and a statue of Mark Twain’s likeness and one of Huck and Tom.
You can also visit Becky Thatcher’s house, where the model for the Tom Sawyer character, Laura Hawkins, lived during the 1840s.
The cave Twain called McDougal’s Cave came to be called after the author, thanks to the notoriety he brought it from Tom Sawyer. Guides will point out the places Twain mentioned in his writings.
In Stoutsville, the birthplace of Mark Twain, you’ll find the restored two-room cabin Samuel L. Clemens was raised in that was moved from the village of Florida to the museum at Mark Twain State Park in 1930. The museum also exhibits Twain’s inventions, family artifacts and furniture, and the author’s books, most notably an 1876 manuscript of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
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