The first issue of The Alabama Baptist newspaper was published on February 4, 1843 in Marion, AL. This building, built as an office building in the e …
NOTE: Judson College suspended its academic operations on July 31, 2021. The Alabama Women’s Hall of Fame is now located hosted by the University of W …
This Vermont Colonial-style house was built by the Bates family circa 1830. This two-story structure was originally constructed of hand-hewn logs that …
This church was built by freed slaves in 1873, Berean is an offspring of Siloam Baptist Church. Siloam and local Baptists gave $1000 for the building …
This home was built for Edward A. Blount and his wife, Mary, between 1853 and 1859. In January 1852, the Blounts bought three lots at the location of …
During the Civil War, Breckinridge Military Hospital was established at Howard College in Marion (now the campus of Marion Military Institute). Soldie …
Coretta Scott King (1927-2006) grew up on the farm of her parents, Obadiah “Obie” Scott and Bernice McMurray Scott, located north of Marion near the c …
Thought to have been built around 1890, this was the office of the dentist, Dr. William Wilson Corley. He sold it in 1906 to another dentist, Dr. J. P …
The date 1863 was found scratched into a brick on the east wall. According to local tradition, the earliest occupant was a lawyer who used the top flo …
This building, built around 1830, is one of Marion’s earliest hotels. It is thought to be the place where General Sam Houston stayed when he came to …
Elmcrest, built ca. 1838, is the oldest building on the Judson College campus. In 1851, Judge John Moore purchased this home from Samuel Fowlkes and …
This church congregation was established in 1869 at the Lincoln School by freed slaves and representatives of the American Missionary Association. The …
This house was built by Edwin D. King as a wedding present for his daughter Sarah when she married John Goree in May 1831. At that time it had four ro …
This house, built in the 1830’s, was the home of Alabama’s First Civil War Governor, Andrew Barry Moore. It is located on the north side of Green Str …
Around midnight on October 15, 1854, the four-story brick Howard College building (then located near the Siloam Baptist Church in Marion) caught fire. …
The Henry House, also known as the Lowry-Ford-Henry House, is a historic antebellum plantation house in Marion. This is just one of about 90 antebellu …
Located in the Green Street Historic District, this Greek Revival cottage has small ornate columns with saw-work details on the porches. The house has …
The Huntington-Locke House, built circa 1834, was originally the home of the noted silversmiths Roswell and William Huntington from North Carolina. Th …
On February 18, 1965, the 26 year old Marion native, Jimmie Lee Jackson, was shot by an Alabama State Trooper while participating in a civil rights ma …
In 1821, just two years after Alabama became a state, John Johnston purchased land from the Federal Government for a home. Shortly afterward, this fra …
This home was built circa 1835 by Osmond T. Jones. It is believed that the house was designed by the same architect that designed Beauvoir, the Jeffer …
Robert Tingnal Jones, a graduate of West Point, moved to Perry County in 1838 where he surveyed and constructed the Cahaba and Marion Railroad. He bui …
This dwelling, also referred to as the Ballard-Haynie-Barnes House, is thought to have been built around 1845. It is a two-story, hipped roof structur …
NOTE: Judson College suspended its academic operations on July 31, 2021 ***** Judson College was established in 1838 by members of Siloam Baptist Chur …
This home, also referred to as the Dean’s House, was built around 1904 for T. D. and Leila Rush Kemp. The original house was a one-story frame buildin …
Kenworthy Hall, also known as the Carlisle-Martin House and Carlisle Hall, was designed by New York architect, Richard Upjohn, and is one of the best …
This is one of Marion’s oldest homes thought to have been built around 1819. It is a raised cottage which is rare in the Black Belt, and is most ofte …
This home was built by Henry C. Lea, brother of Margaret Moffet Lea, and it was the site of the marriage of Margaret Lea and General Sam Houston, Pres …
Built about 1898 by Lane Lee, this house is typical of late Victorian cottage style prevalent from 1890 to 1910. Features of the house include a wrapa …
The Lincoln Normal School was a historic African American school in Marion, Alabama. Lincoln Normal was founded in 1867 by freed slaves as a school fo …
This house was built in the early 1840s as the home of Napoleon Lockett and his wife, Mary. Mrs. Lockett is credited for the creation of the first Con …
This Greek Revival style house was built in 1854 by E. H. Bernhard and his wife, the former Eugenia Howard Lockhart. It has a central portico balcony, …
This home, built circa 1856, was owned and probably constructed by David Lockhart. It has plain woodwork and mantels, simple pine stair rail and newe …
Marion Military Institute (MMI) traces its origins back to 1842 with the creation of Howard College in Marion, Alabama by the Alabama Baptist Conventi …
The Marion Presbyterian Church was organized on July 30, 1832. The present building was constructed in the 1870’s using Norman-style architecture and …
Methodists had their beginnings in Marion in 1819. Prior to the construction of the present church building, the Methodist congregation used the Maso …
This home, built in the 1840s, is the only Gothic style house in Marion. Constructed in cruciform pattern, the two-story house has a central wide por …
West of Marion, AL in the community of Folsom is one of Alabama’s last active plantations, one which has been in the same family since the early 1800s …
This historical marker located in front of the Perry County Courthouse in Marion. Following is the text on this historical marker: Side 1: MUCKLE”S RI …
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