HANNIBAL, MO -- Months after it's completion, the Huck Finn House was rededicated this afternoon.
Two Hannibal families helped make this project possible.
The Coons family donated the land that Tom Blankenship home sat on.
Blankenship was the model Mark Twain used for Huck Finn in his books.
The Parhams donated the money needed to rebuild the home that was torn down in 1911.
Herb Parham credits his son Austin for the idea of rebuilding the home.
"It was my son's idea, " Parham said. "We wanted to make tribute to him. It was his idea to redo this fir the city of Hannibal and the visitors who come here from all around the world."
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