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History · Marshall
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.
1 old photo or paper
1 historic places
1 famous people
1 need a date
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.
★ What stands out · Help out Start Marshall’s collection The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Marshall’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos 00s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s
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.
Read it all → 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.
Retake this view Narrows Bridge, Spanning Sugar Creek at Old County Road 280 East Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Marshall’s page.
Retake this view · +15 On the National Register 1 historic place in Marshall The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Historic Landmarks
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none yet
historic buildings protected
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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.
Memory lane What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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What used to stand where something else is now in Marshall? → Who remembers Marshall in the 1950s? → A family story from old Marshall → Does anyone have photos of Marshall from the 1990s? →
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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