Welcome to Marion, Alabama
Marion is primarily known as the home of Judson College and Marion Military Institute (MMI), but these famous schools are but one facet of this history-rich community. In Marion, you will find many historic sites in addition to Judson and MMI and most of them are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Historic sites listed individually on the National Register include The Chapel and Lovelace Hall at Marion Military Institute, First Congregational Church of Marion, the Henry House, Marion Female Seminary, Phillips Memorial Auditorium, the President's House at Marion Military Institute, and Siloam Baptist Church. Marion has one National Historic Landmark, Kenworthy Hall. Additionally, Marion has four historic districts on the National Register - the Green Street Historic District, Judson College Historic District, Marion Courthouse Square Historic District, and the West Marion Historic District. These historic districts contain 280 contributing properties which include historic homes, churches, public buildings, and other structures.
Provided below are details about some of the historic sites that you will find in Marion. Click on the sites for additional pictures and details. These sites are also marked on the map above. Zoom in on the map for better viewing.
For additional details about the history of Marion, visit wikipedia.org/Marion,_Alabama.
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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 …
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 was originally built as a small Victorian cottage by William T. Miree and his wife, Paralee Richardson Miree, around 1880. Their daughter, M …
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 …
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 …
This , two-story, Greek Revival house was built circa 1848 for Mark A. Myatt, who was a merchant and planter. The home has a three-bay façade. The cen …
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