The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The town was named for Francis Marion, a military leader known as the "Swamp Fox". Marion was Lauderdale County's seat from its founding to Reconstruction. Prior to the war, Marion was a prosperous town inhabited by numerous planters and enslaved African Americans. In 1840, it had a drugstore, two blacksmith shops, six dry goods stores, and two academies (one for girls and another for boys). It also had at least one newspaper, the Lauderdale Republican.
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Start Marion’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Marion’s history is told.
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Marion, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Marion is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Marion has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is US Sugar Crop Field Station in Meridian, 2.6 miles away.
Marion and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.