Mark Twain Birthplace State Historic Site

Mark Twain Birthplace
State Historic Site
Missouri State Historic Site
An interior room of the cabin
Country United States
State Missouri
County Monroe
Elevation 633 ft (193 m) [1]
Coordinates 39°29′19″N 91°46′55″W / 39.48861°N 91.78194°W / 39.48861; -91.78194Coordinates: 39°29′19″N 91°46′55″W / 39.48861°N 91.78194°W / 39.48861; -91.78194 [1]
Area 13 acres (5 ha) [2]
State acquisition 1924 [3]
Management Missouri Department of Natural Resources
Website: Mark Twain Birthplace
State Historic Site
Mark Twain Birthplace Cabin
Architect Unknown
NRHP Reference # 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.[4] 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 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and furnishings from Twain’s Connecticut home.[4] 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.[5]

Samuel Clemens, later known by the pen name Mark Twain, was born in the two-room house on November 30, 1835.[6] The house was rented by his parents Jane Lampton Clemens (1803–1890) and John Marshall Clemens (1798–1847).[7] 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.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 "Mark Twain Birthplace State Historic Site". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
  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.
  4. 1 2 "Mark Twain Birthplace State Historic Site". Missouri State Parks. Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved November 16, 2012.
  5. "Mark Twain Birthplace Cabin". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. Retrieved November 3, 2015.
  6. Andrew Hoffman. "Inventing Mark Twain". The New York Times Company. Retrieved November 3, 2015.
  7. Christie Graves Hamric (January 1, 1993). The Mark Twain Encyclopedia. Taylor & Francis. pp. 152–154. ISBN 978-0-8240-7212-4.
  8. "Mark Twain Birthplace Cabin" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form. Missouri Department of Natural Resources. April 10, 1969. Retrieved November 3, 2015.
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