Mark Twain Birthplace State Historic Site

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Mark Twain Birthplace
State Historic Site
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An interior room of the cabin
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Location Monroe County, Missouri, United States
Coordinates 39°29′18″N91°47′09″W / 39.4884°N 91.7857°W / 39.4884; -91.7857 [1]
Area13 acres (5.3 ha) [2]
Elevation633 ft (193 m) [1]
Established1924 [3]
Visitors59,002(in 2022) [4]
OperatorMissouri Department of Natural Resources
Website mostateparks.com/park/mark-twain-birthplace-state-historic-site
Mark Twain Birthplace Cabin
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NRHP reference No. 69000116
Added to NRHPMay 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

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  2. "Missouri State Park Advisory Board Annual Report 2008". Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved November 3, 2015.
  3. "State Park Land Acquisition Summary". Missouri State Parks. Retrieved November 3, 2015.
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  5. 1 2 "Mark Twain Birthplace State Historic Site". Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved November 16, 2012.
  6. "Mark Twain Birthplace Cabin". NPGallery. National Park Service. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
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  9. 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.