Online Resources
The State Historical Society of Missouri
Newspaper Archives
Palmyra Weekly Whig (Palmyra, Missouri) 1846-1856 (No longer available at this site)
Palmyra Spectator (Palmyra, Missouri) 1863-1964
Marion County Herald (Palmyra, Missouri) 1883-1925
Marion County Standard (Palmyra, Missouri) 1925-1941
The Daily Spectator (Palmyra, Missouri) 1895-1898
To access Palmyra MISSOURI newspapers online follow the steps below:
Go to https://shsmo.org/
The State Historical Society of Missouri website
Go to RESEARCH tab
Click on DIGITAL COLLECTION
Under VIEW THE DIGITAL COLLECTIONS SITE tab
Click on the word "here"
This will allow you to use the Missouri newspapers without subscribing to Newspapers.com
Click on SEARCH DIGITAL NEWSPAPERS tab
Click on PAPERS tab
Historical Atlases and Maps
1869 Map of Palmyra
Conservation Treatment of the 1860 Map of the City of Palmyra by the Missouri State Archives’ Conservation Laboratory
https://www.sos.mo.gov/CMSImages/LocalRecords/PalmyraMapConservTreat.pdf
The 20th Century Atlas Map of Marion County, Missouri (1901)
https://digital.shsmo.org/digital/collection/plat/id/7607
1902 Marion County Plat Maps
http://www.historicmapworks.com/Atlas/US/31239/Marion+County+1902/
Standard Atlas of Marion County, Missouri, 1913
Plat Book of Marion County 1930
- Marion County 1946
Sanborn Maps of Palmyra
(1886, 1893, 1899, 1909, 1916)
https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A138926
Sanborn Maps of Hannibal
https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A138815
History of Marion County, Missouri 1884
A complete copy of 1884 book History of Marion County, Missouri is available online.
(Note: There are 1,008 pages, so this takes a while to load.)
https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu//mu/islandora/object/mu:417772
Also available:
Reprinted copies of the original 1884 History of Marion County, Missouri book can be purchased at the Gardner House Museum.
Other Resources
Missouri Digital Heritage https://www.sos.mo.gov/mdh/
Palmyra Massacre Collection https://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/mdh_splash/default?coll=palmyramassacre
University of Missouri Digital Library
Marion County Place Names
https://collections.shsmo.org/manuscripts/columbia/C2366/marion-county
Cemetery Indexes (available at The Hannibal Library)
Sprague Funeral Home records available at:
Register of the First Presbyterian Church of Marion College available at:
Inventory of the County Archives, Marion County, Missouri 1941
https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A11768#page/1/mode/2up
Portrait and Biographical Record of Marion, Ralls and Pike Counties 1895
https://mdh.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/mocohist/id/18006/rec/1
Robert Devoy: A Tale of the Palmyra Massacre
1920
https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A367467#page/2/mode/2up