The public archives hold only 3 old photos of Marshall. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Marshall’s history is told.
Woven from the archive, the National Register and the people born here.
Born hereEd Mayer is born here
Born hereFenton Whitlock Booth is born here
In the archive1940 Census Enumeration District Maps - Illinois - Clark County - Marshall - ED 12-9A, ED…
Born hereCharles Le Moyne is born here
In the archiveHistoric National Road - DowntownWriters, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
From Wikipedia’s history of Marshall.
Marshall was officially organized by William B. Archer in 1835, eight years after the National Road entered the community. The city was named after John Marshall, chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Marshall was incorporated on May 14, 1873.
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2 decades in the archive, from the 1880s to the 1990s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
2015Statue of Lincoln, Marshall, IL, US (03)
2015Statue of Lincoln, Marshall, IL, US (02)
2015Old Stone Arch Bridge, National Road
2011Ohio Oil offices in
2011Marshall post office, 62441
2011Manly-McCann House
2011Henry and Rebecca Baggs Log Cabin
2011First Methodist Church of
2011First Congregational Church in
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Marshall’s page.
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National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
From Wikimedia Commons (12), the National Register of Historic Places (2), Wikipedia and Wikidata for famous people. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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