1 Hannibal, Missouri A Walking Tour By: Sabrina Green & Kerry Johnson

2  Historic Clothing Boys  Pants and Shirts  Clothes like father-  Waistcoats  Collars  Cravats Girls  Long Dresses  Stays, not as tightly fastened as the mother’s  Pantalettes-fancy leggings worn under dresses All Clothes  Natural fabrics; mostly cotton, linen, and wool  Used hooks, straight pins, and laces  Made by hand

3  Historical Games & Activities  Games  ‘Kick the Can’  Hoop-Rolling  Ice Skating  Marbles  Checkers  Chess

4  Superstitions  Supernatural  In the 1800’s, if you rocked an empty cradle, you were inviting into your home the birth of another child

5  Population and Location During the 1840’s  World Population  1.3 billion  United States Population  17 million Missouri Population  384 thousand Hannibal, Missouri  1-2 thousand

6   Refrain from smoking, chewing, drinking, swearing, and profanity  Covered the United States  Sash & uniform made it appealing  Organized in Ohio  For girls and boys 16 and under Cadets of Temperance

7   Located in the north end of Hannibal  Popular place among children (visited by Tom and Huck in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)  Tom and Huck statue at bottom Cardiff Hill

8   Twain visited often as a boy  Purchased 1840 By Dr. Joseph McDowell  Boarded up the door so he could do experiments on preservation  Discovered body of 14 year-old daughter in cave  Bought by Fielder & Stilwell families  Spacious walkways  Dry and level McDougal's Cave/ McDowell’s Cave

9  Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum  Includes 7 buildings  Mark Twain’s home  “Huck Finn’s” home  “Becky Thatcher’s” house  Grant’s Dung Store  J.M. Clemens Justice of the Peace Office  2 interactive museums

10   In the middle of the Mississippi River where it is I mile wide  Approximately 3 miles long and 1 mile wide  Downriver from Hannibal  Floods and rain made into 2-3 islands  Long  Narrow  Wooded  Forested  Wild shrubs Jackson’s Island

11   School Year: winter and summer (10/11 weeks)  School Day: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. (eat and play 12p.m.-1p.m.)  The Building: one-room schoolhouse  Grade Levels: all students in one class,  grouped by book they were working on Schoolhouses in the 1840’s

12   Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. New York: Perma-Bound Classics, Print.                html   12 Credits 11