Henry W. Perry, a surveyor, was employed October 16, 1839, to survey and plat the town lots, which are known as the Original Survey of the City of Marion, including the Public Square. These lots were ordered to be sold on six, twelve and eighteen months’ time by the Sheriff.
The sale commenced November 17, 1839, and continued for three days. At this sale there were thirty eight lots sold for the sum of two thousand four hundred and forty-nine dollars and fifty cents ($2,449.5 0) to the persons and for the persons and for the prices shown in the following tabular statement:
| Name | Lots | Price |
| Samuel H.D. Rybrun | 1 | $50.00 |
| Sterling Hill | 1 | 60.00 |
| John T. Davis | 1 | 111.00 |
| William Benson | 1 | 113.00 |
| Daniel R. Pulley | 1 | 93.00 |
| Joab Goodall | 1 | 67.00 |
| J.T. and T.D. Davis | 1 | 100.00 |
| F.F. Duncan | 1 | 116.00 |
| John G. Sparks | 1 | 78.00 |
| Dempsey Odum | 1 | 80.00 |
| John Davis | 1 | 131.00 |
| A.T. Benson | 1 | 150.00 |
| E.C. Spiller | 1 | 114.00 |
| William Benson | 1 | 102.00 |
| William L. Benson | 1 | 161.25 |
| J.B. Freeman | 1 | 96.00 |
| John D. Sanders | 1 | 68.00 |
| John Davis | 1 | 70.50 |
| George W. Binkley | 1 | 50.00 |
| John D. Sanders | 1 | 50.00 |
| Henry Sanders | 1 | 30.00 |
| William K. Spiller | 3 | 63.50 |
| James Hill | 2 | 90.25 |
| Elijah Mooneyham | 1 | 41.00 |
| Henry Robertson | 1 | 76.00 |
| John Simpson | 1 | 66.00 |
| Sterling Hill | 1 | 30.00 |
| John D. Sanders | 2 | 37.00 |
| William Burns | 2 | 51.00 |
| Junior Meredith | 2 | 51.00 |
| G.W. Binkley | 1 | 30.00 |
| Willis Allen | 1 | 23.00 |
| ————————- | —- | ———— |
| Totals | 38 | $2,449.50 |
The sale of the lots was one or the first sources of revenue to the County, and the aggregate constituted a liberal sum with which to defray the cost of the construction of the public buildings.
(Extracted from 1905 Souvenir History, WCHS: map constructed by Nanny Gray)