Mark Twain Birthplace State Historic Site

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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.[1] 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.[1] 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.[2]

Samuel Clemens, later known by the pen name Mark Twain, was born in the two-room house on November 30, 1835.[3] The house was rented by his parents Jane Lampton Clemens (1803–1890) and John Marshall Clemens (1798–1847).[4] 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.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b "Mark Twain Birthplace State Historic Site". Missouri State Parks. Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved November 16, 2012.
  2. ^ "Mark Twain Birthplace Cabin". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. Retrieved November 3, 2015.
  3. ^ Andrew Hoffman. "Inventing Mark Twain". The New York Times Company. Retrieved November 3, 2015.
  4. ^ Christie Graves Hamric (January 1, 1993). The Mark Twain Encyclopedia. Taylor & Francis. pp. 152–154. ISBN 978-0-8240-7212-4.
  5. ^ "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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