On Shrine Road 0.5 miles south of County Road 526, on the right when traveling east.
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Mark Twain (Samuel Longhorne Clemens) was born in the nearby village of Florida, Nov. 30, 1835. His birthplace was given to the Mark Twain Memorial Park Association by M.A. Violette, 1924, and is maintained as a museum. The . . . — — Map (db m123612) HM
On Main Street (County Road 543) north of County Road 526, on the right when traveling north.
Florida, Mo., a settlement of about 60 families and several businesses, “...had two streets, each a couple of hundred yards long; the rest of the avenues mere lanes, with rail fences and cornfields on either side. Both the streets and lanes . . . — — Map (db m123614) HM
On Main Street (U.S. 24) south of 2nd Street, on the left when traveling south.
James Monroe was born at Monroe's Creek, Westmoreland County, Virginia on April 28, 1758 to Scots-Welsh parents. He attended the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia but left school to enlist in the Third Virginia Regiment, . . . — — Map (db m149767) HM