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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27TT_marion-mausoleum_Marion-OH.html
The Marion Mausoleum represents a time in early 20th-century
America in which burial practices changed because of advances in
engineering and construction materials, concerns about hygiene, and
a new rise in wealth among the middle class. Exhib…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TY6_cummins-home-historical_Marion-OH.html
Side A Thomas Stinson Cummins, owner of a successful dry
goods store, built his home in the early 1870s on
the outskirts of the growing village of Marion. The
home was purchased in 1889 by Henry M. Barnhart,
an inventor, and co-founder of the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SEV_the-underground-railroad-the-marion-county-trial-of-bill-anderson_Marion-OH.html
The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was neither underground nor a
railroad, but a system of loosely connected safe havens
where those escaping the brutal conditions of slavery
were sheltered, fed, clothed, nursed, concealed, disg…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SEU_old-marion-cemetery_Marion-OH.html
Marion founder Eber Baker donated this two-acre plot for use as a
cemetery shortly after platting the village in 1822. The oldest
legible headstone bears an 1812 burial date, indicating that it may
have been moved to the site after the opening…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S9O_scioto-ordnance-plant-site_Marion-OH.html
Side A On March 2, 1942, four months after the U.S. entered WWII, farmers living between Marion-Williamsport and Marseilles-Galion Roads and between State Route 98 and the Norfolk & Western Railroad were notified to vacate their farms by the first…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S56_the-old-blockhouse-site_Marion-OH.html
The U.S. Army built a two-story blockhouse on a nearby
hill during the War of 1812. The blockhouse was one of a
series of such structures erected along the Greenville
Treaty line to guard against Native Americans who
supported the British duri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QE3_the-underground-railroad_Marion-OH.html
The Underground Railroad was neither underground nor a
railroad, but a system of loosely connected safe havens
where those escaping the brutal conditions of slavery
were sheltered, fed, clothed, nursed, concealed, disguised,
and instructed dur…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QE2_the-marion-county-trial-of-bill-anderson_Marion-OH.html
Runaways sheltered by friendly abolitionist communities often believed
that slave-catchers could not touch them in the heart of Ohio, but
they were wrong.
Such was the case in 1838 in Marion County. A black man by the
name of "Bill And…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A49_harding-memorial_Marion-OH.html
Warren Gamaliel Harding
Warren Gamaliel Harding was born November 2, 1865, in Blooming Grove, Ohio, to Dr. George Tryon Harding and Phoebe Dickerson Harding. The family moved to the village of Caledonia, and then to Marion.
Harding attended …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJEB_the-marion-engineer-depot_Marion-OH.html
Side A:Early in 1942, during World War II, the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers acquired 640 acres along two miles of U. S. Route 30 South (now State Route 309) from ten landowners. By June 11 of that year, the farm families were removed and construc…