HANNIBAL (WGEM) - A historic cemetery filled with Hannibal’s founding fathers, politicians and even a major league baseball player has received an upgrade.

Crews have finished fixing drainage issues and blacktopping the zig zag up the hill at Riverside Cemetery.

“We’re super excited that we have a new road heading up the first section or the cemetery. So there had been an ongoing issue with that road washing out, so we’ve addressed some of the drainage issues and we do have that portion paved now, that was such a challenge, so it does make it a little bit easier for folks to get up to the cemetery now,” said Jimmy O’Donnell, a Riverside Cemetery Association board member.

Erosion to the road has been an issue for years, but now Riverside Cemetery Association board members are hopeful tha

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