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Marion County
=Mark Twain Cave= 300 Cave Hollow Rd Hannibal, MO 63401 Mark Twain Cave webpage

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Mark Twain Cave
Coordinates: 39.688745, -91.3320601 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Mark Twain Cave
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) wrote about this cave in five of his books. Most notably The Adventures of Tom Sawyer published in 1876. With the popularity of this book, thousands of people from all over the world came to Hannibal by steamboat to see this cave that they had read about.

In 1848, Dr. Joseph Nash McDowell bought the cave with the sole purpose to experiment in the preservation of dead bodies. Today, our guides still tell the story of when Dr. McDowell brought his deceased 14- year old daughter, who died of pneumonia and placed her in a glass and copper cylinder coffin and left her there.

In 1879, Jesse James used Mark Twain Cave as a hide-out after robbing a bank in Saverton, Missouri. His signature can still be seen in the cave today. (Not on cave tour.)

Mark Twain Cave has been shown continuously during all the World Wars, the Great Depression and today. From Mark Twain Cave webpage

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