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Mark Twain statue

New London, Missouri, United States
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A roughly 30-foot-tall stucco-over-metal-frame giant statue of Mark Twain, built by Larry Koelling in 1984 to mark the entrance to Clemens Landing (now largely an RV park) on US Highway 61 just south of Hannibal, Missouri -- Twain's boyhood hometown.
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Mark Twain statue
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Approximate location · 39.652° N, 91.362° W
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Free roadside landmark visible from US-61, near New London/Hannibal, Missouri.
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US Highway 61, west side, ~4 miles south of Hannibal, near New London, MO.
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Mark Twain Dinette mug
Hannibal, Missouri
The Mark Twain Dinette, 400 N. Third Street, Hannibal, Missouri, has long been associated with a large root beer mug on a pole. Roadarch, a roadside-architecture site, reports that the Dinette joined the Frostop chain in 1963 and that a replacement mug, repainted with the Dinette's name, was installed in 2018. The restaurant, which a 2017 Hannibal.net report says opened in 1942 as a 13-seat restaurant, lists homemade root beer among its staples.
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