Langdon Plaza Memorial
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Anybody who knows Elmira will tell you that Mark Twain (otherwise known as Samuel Clemens) came to our city and married his sweetheart Olivia Langdon back in the late 1800s. We have bragging rights on this fact. It seems sometimes that we have gone out of our way to name as many things after Mark Twain and the Langdon's as possible. There's the Tom Sawyer Motor Inn, the Mark Twain Hotel, the Connecticutt Yankee Lounge, the Huck Finn Room and many others.

Clemens settled here, wrote some of his stories and books in Elmira and lived among our Elmira anscestors, a most popular and well known resident. Mark Twain is buried with his wife Olivia at the Langdon Family Plot at Woodlawn Cemetary on North Walnut Street.

The Langdons were long-time Elmirans whose home was situated on what is now called Langdon Plaza. Today there is a little known memorial plaque at the Plaza and you see that pictured here. Click on the photo for an enlargement.

Mark Twain and the Langdons attended Park Church directly across the street.