Mark Twain Memorial Bridge


The Mark Twain Memorial Bridge is the name for two bridges over the Mississippi River at Hannibal, Missouri, childhood home of Mark Twain, for whom the bridge is named. The current bridge, north of the original bridge, was finished in 2000. The bridge currently carries traffic for Interstate 72 and U.S. Highway 36. The state of Missouri has put up a stone picture of Twain on the Missouri side of the bridge.

Read more about Mark Twain Memorial Bridge:  1936 Span, 2000 Span

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    I have at last, after several months’ experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert—a domed and steepled solitude, where the stranger is lonely in the midst of a million of his race.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    His art is eccentricity, his aim
    How not to hit the mark he seems to aim at,
    Robert Francis (b. 1901)

    Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    When I received this [coronation] ring I solemnly bound myself in marriage to the realm; and it will be quite sufficient for the memorial of my name and for my glory, if, when I die, an inscription be engraved on a marble tomb, saying, “Here lieth Elizabeth, which reigned a virgin, and died a virgin.”
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