Hannibal was the home of William H. Hatch, lawyer, Congressman, and father of agricultural experiment stations. Hatch sponsored the law creating the office of Secretary of Agriculture. Adjoining Hannibal is the Hatch Farm, bequeathed to the State by his daughter and now operated as the Hatch Dairy Experiment Station

Marker is on Broadway Ext. (U.S. 36) just east of 5th Street, on the right when traveling west.

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