Mark Twain Birthplace State Historic Site
Historic house in Florida, Missouri
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The Mark Twain Birthplace State Historic Site is a publicly owned property near Florida, Missouri, maintained by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, that preserves the cabin where the author Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in 1835.[5] 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, and furnishings from Twain's Connecticut home.[5] 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.[6]
| Mark Twain Birthplace State Historic Site | |
|---|---|
An interior room of the cabin | |
  Location within Missouri  Location within the United States | |
| Location | Jefferson Township, Monroe County, Missouri, United States |
| Coordinates | 39°29′18″N 91°47′09″W[1] |
| Area | 13 acres (5.3 ha)[2] |
| Elevation | 633 ft (193 m)[1] |
| Established | 1924[3] |
| Visitors | 59,002 (in 2022)[4] |
| Operator | Missouri Department of Natural Resources |
| Website | mostateparks |
Mark Twain Birthplace Cabin | |
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| NRHP reference No. | 69000116 |
| Added to NRHP | May 21, 1969 |
Samuel Clemens, later known by the pen name Mark Twain, was born in the two-room house on November 30, 1835.[7] The house was rented by his parents Jane Lampton Clemens (1803–1890) and John Marshall Clemens (1798–1847).[8] 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.[9]
