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Marshall’s history is mostly unwritten

The public archives hold just one old photo of Marshall. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.

1old photo or paper
1historic places
1famous people
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From Marshall’s archive · credits on each photo

What stands out about Marshall’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Marshall’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
The story

How Marshall came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Marshall.

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A post office has been in operation at Marshall since 1878. The town was named for Mahlon W. Marshall, an original owner of the town site.

The Arch in the Town of Marshall was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

Marshall, decade by decade

Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Narrows Bridge, Spanning Sugar Creek at Old County Road 280 East
Retake this viewNarrows Bridge, Spanning Sugar Creek at Old County Road 280 East

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On the National Register

1 historic place in Marshall

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
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National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
0
each building in a district counts
first listed
1985
Arch in the Town of Marshall
in Indiana
#288
by listings

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

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What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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From the Library of Congress (3), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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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