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Early Tourist Map (1936)

Though less colorful than the BROCHURE FOR INDUSTRIES that the Hannibal Chamber of Commerce prepared at the same time, this CofC map indicates the growing interest in the tourist "industry." A "Mark Twain Trail" has been plotted around the city, and 44 points of interest identified. Fourteen are specific MT attractions, though many are simply "sites" -- i.e. there's no building left to see at #12. "Muff Potter's Jail Site" or #15. "Site of Huck Finn's Old Home," and the "Site of Swimming Hole" (#32.) seems to be covered with railroad tracks. But the "MT House" (#9.) and a "MT Museum" (#30.) are there, open daily with free admission. (The "Museum" is not the present one, which was built in 1937 as a WPA project next to the "MT House," but rather a temporary museum put into place for the 1935 Centennial in the lobby of a bankrupt bank.) Also marked are three hotels and two campgrounds, and the camp sites are explicitly linked to tourists.


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