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1 Hannibal, Missouri A Walking Tour By: Sabrina Green & Kerry Johnson
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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
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3 Historical Games & Activities Games ‘Kick the Can’ Hoop-Rolling Ice Skating Marbles Checkers Chess
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4 Superstitions Supernatural In the 1800’s, if you rocked an empty cradle, you were inviting into your home the birth of another child
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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12 Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. New York: Perma-Bound Classics, 1988. Print. http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/tomsawyer/themes.html http://www.genevahistoricalsociety.com/PDFs/Tea/Clothing.PDF http://members.socket.net/~joschaper/wmarktwan.html http://www.marktwainmuseum.org/media/Jacksons%20Island%20VT.pdf http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=ii http://www.motherbedford.com/Superstitions.htm http://www.shmoop.com/tom-sawyer/the-supernatural-quotes.html http://pdmusic.org/1800s.html http://www.1930census.com/1840_census.php http://www.1930census.com/1840_census.php http://www.census.gov/dmd/www/resapport/states/missouri.pdf http://www.census.gov/dmd/www/resapport/states/missouri.pdf http://www.marktwainmuseum.org/index.php/research/frequently-asked-questions http://www.marktwainmuseum.org/index.php/research/frequently-asked-questions http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM1CR3_Cardiff_Hill_Hannibal_Missouri http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM1CR3_Cardiff_Hill_Hannibal_Missouri http://www.americanheritage.com/content/mark-twain-boyhood-home-and-museum http://www.americanheritage.com/content/mark-twain-boyhood-home-and-museum http://www.faqs.org/childhood/Th-W/Vacations. http://www.faqs.org/childhood/Th-W/Vacations html http://library.thinkquest.org/J002606/mid1800s.html http://nashuaschoolhouse.com/Country_School_Life.html http://nashuaschoolhouse.com/Country_School_Life.html http://www.nps.gov/fosc/forteachers/childrengame.htm 12 Credits 11
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