Admission: $5
Hours: Year-round, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. or by appt.
Address: Box 226A, Rt. B
Phone: 573-288-3995
Come visit us in Canton, Missouri
An old one room brick school house located in Martin Park, one of three remaining segregated schools that finally closed in the 1950s.
Canton, MO Historic BuildingsThe Canton Ferry is the longest continually operating ferry service on the Mississippi River. The first known ferry service began operation a few miles north of Canton around 1844
Canton, MO ToursLarge navigational waterway structure on the upper Mississippi River, One mi. above Canton. Has a dam 40 tainter gates and 3 roller gates. It locks 35,000,000 tons of cargo per year.
Canton, MO RecreationOld-fashioned school still operational in historic village with general store, iron works, old post office and largest known collection of old toys.
Canton, MO Historic SchoolhousesThe world's largest known collection of Marx toys and other antique toys from the last century.
Canton, MO MuseumsMuseum encloses a two-room cabin in which Samuel Clemens was born in 1835. Many of his personal items and books are displayed...
Three rooms of period antiques (1860s-1880s) depicting an Irish immigrant's cottage and two rooms of photos and displays of M...
Non-profit museum and resource center that attempts to discover and collect any material which may help to establish the hist...
1878 jail in use until 1977. On National Register. Restored cells, albino deer, fossil display, gift and rock shop....