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(Front):"To you from failing hands we throw the torch; be yours to hold it high." 1917 ~ 1918 Gave their lives: Brown, Fernie E.; Grainger, Ernest M.; Holden, Stephen; Lane, William F.; Martin, Walter W.; Sloan, Hayes; Smith, David E.; Turne…
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To Honor Those Who Serve Seal of The United States Army Seal of the United States Navy Seal of the United States Air Force Seal of the United States Marine CorpsSeal of the United States Coast Guard Veterans Memorial Triangle 2000
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Front Dedicated to the veterans of Marion County that so nobly served their country in the following wars: World War II December 7, 1941 ~ September 2, 1945; Korean War June 25, 1950 ~ July 27, 1953. Also in special honor for those men that so …
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The Confederacy established a navy yard 1/4 mile NW about 1863 on the banks of the Great Pee Dee River.Here, under the command of Lt. Van Renssalaer Morgan, a wooden gunboat, the C.S.S. Pee Dee, was built.Launched by November 1864, it was burned t…
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This one-story brick passenger depot, typical of the period, was built in 1908 for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. The first railroad through Marion was the Wilmington & Manchester Railroad, completed here in 1854 and later incorporated into the…
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This brick building is a fine vernacular interpretation of the Classic Revival style. Completed in 1892, the construction was financed through a $10,000 bond issue; this included an artesian well nearby. The lower floor contained a council room, m…
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This building, the first public school in Marion County, was built in 1886 by the Marion Academy Society, chartered in 1811. The Society, which had operated a private school here for almost seventy-years, then turned the school over to the Marion …
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"Bluefields," named for the Blue family, was built by 1870. Annie Evans Blue (d.1912) was given this land in 1872 by her father William Evans (1804-1876), Marion District planter, militia general, and state representative. Annie Blue and her husba…
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Marker Front:Marion CountyOriginally a part of colonial Craven County and Georgetown District of 1769, it was created as Liberty County by an Act of the General Assembly in 1785. The name was changed to Marion District in 1798 and to Marion Cou…
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To the Memory of those valiant souls who went forth from Old Marion to yield up their lives in Patriotic Devotion to The South and all that the South stood for.While many of the rest in unknown graves this monument attests the love and admiration …
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