| Mark Twain Birthplace State Historic Site | |
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 An interior room of the cabin | |
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| Location | Jefferson Township,Monroe County, Missouri, United States |
| Coordinates | 39°29′18″N91°47′09″W / 39.4884°N 91.7857°W /39.4884; -91.7857[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 |
TheMark Twain Birthplace State Historic Site is a publicly owned property nearFlorida,Missouri, maintained by theMissouri Department of Natural Resources, that preserves the cabin where the authorSamuel 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 novelThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and furnishings fromTwain's Connecticut home.[5] Thehistoric site is adjacent toMark Twain State Park on a peninsula at the western end of man-madeMark Twain Lake. The cabin was listed on theNational Register of Historic Places in 1969.[6]
Samuel Clemens, later known by thepen nameMark 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) andJohn 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 theMark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum inHannibal,Missouri, in 1839.[9]
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