Despite physician s backing, City Hospital closed in 1875 | News hannibal.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from hannibal.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In the pitch of blackness on a cloudy, moonless night, neither man nor horse can calculate direction for travel. That is, until July 1875, when the city of Hannibal authorized
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Two now-demolished houses in the 100 block of South Maple Avenue in Hannibal, Mo., are pictured in the background during a construction project at McCooey School. The house at right is believed to be the historic home of W.D. Anderson and later his son, Morris Anderson, both Hannibal attorneys. The house at left is believed to be that of Mrs. Eliza Rogers and her family. Mrs. Rogers was the widow of Col. John B. Rogers, who headed the Second Missouri State Militia Cavalry at Cape Girardeau during the later part of the Civil War.Â
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A horse-drawn streetcar is shown at the junction of Broadway and Market streets, Hannibal, Mo. The first street railway service began in 1878, and George Mifflin Dallas Conley was Hannibalâs first street car superintendent.Â
Photo from âThe Story of Hannibalâ by J. Hurley and Roberta Hagood.
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