We toured the Rockcliffe Mansion - built 1900 it was said to be the nicest river house
in Missouri. Unfortunately no pictures are allowed inside.
The foot of Cardiff Hill and the Tom and Huck statues.
The staircase up the hill leads to the white lighthouse.
Partway up you know you are in Hannibal.
Almost there - the last staircase. Jill counted 243 steps to the top. Its a ways up.
Nice view up top - can even see a train and a barge.
The lighthouse.
Back down, and the statues again.
A little square has a number of buildings from Mark Twain's life. The Haunted House
on Hill Street.
Becky Thatcher house - home of Laura Hawkins who the character of Becky Thatcher
was based on.
Mark Twain's father's law office.
Tom Sawyer's fence.
Pilaster House/Grant's Drug Store - the Clemens family lived here for a while, and
Twain's father died here.
Mark Twain boyhood home.
Of course, they play up Mark Twain everwhere. Here's a diner just off the square.
You know, that lighthouse is pretty high up.
We did some wandering, and asked a native, but found the Mount Olivet cemetery (its off
of T outside of downtown). The man Injun Joe was based on is buried here.
