The Mark Twain Birthplace State Historic Site is a publicly owned property in

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, maintained by the

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, that preserves the cabin where the author

Samuel Langhorne Clemens Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has pr ...

was born in 1835. 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 ''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'' is an 1876 novel by Mark Twain about a boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840s in the town of St. Petersburg, which is based on Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived as a boy. In the nov ...

'', and furnishings from Twain's Connecticut home. The

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is adjacent to

Mark Twain State Park Mark Twain State Park is a public recreation area encompassing on Mark Twain Lake in Monroe County, Missouri. The state park offers water recreation, hiking trails, and campgrounds. It is adjacent to the Mark Twain Birthplace State Historic S ...

on a peninsula at the western end of man-made

Mark Twain Lake Mark Twain Lake is a reservoir located in Ralls and Monroe Counties in the U.S. state of Missouri. It was created by the Clarence Cannon Dam (formerly called ''Joanna Dam'') impounding the Salt River and is located about southwest of Hanniba ...

. The cabin was listed on the

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in 1969. Samuel Clemens, later known by the

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Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has p ...

, was born in the two-room house on November 30, 1835. The house was rented by his parents Jane Lampton Clemens (1803–1890) and

John Marshall Clemens John Marshall Clemens (August 11, 1798 – March 24, 1847) was the father of author Mark Twain. Biography Clemens was the scion of a Virginia family that owned both land and slaves in that state. The Clemens were said to be a Cornish Amer ...

(1798–1847). 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 The Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum is located on 206-208 Hill Street, Hannibal, Missouri, on the west bank of the Mississippi River in the United States. It was the home of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as author Mark Twain, from 18 ...

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, in 1839.

References

External links

Mark Twain Birthplace State Historic Site
Missouri Department of Natural Resources
Mark Twain State Park and Historic Site Map
Missouri Department of Natural Resources {{authority control Missouri State Historic Sites Mark Twain Protected areas established in 1924 Museums in Monroe County, Missouri

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