The Marion Candy Kitchen located at 207 W. Main Street appears to have had a sum existence of about 20 years and was totally a Greek run business from start to go. Continue reading
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Marion Heights Plat Map 1914
Marion’s early efforts to attract diversified industry to supplement the coal mines are recalled by Miss Maude Owen, 510 S. Madison Street, who was secretary to the manager of the Marion Development Company not long after the turn of the century. Continue reading
The Marion State & Savings Bank was organized in 1890 by C. H. Denison and J. H. Searing and joined in a few months by J. H. Burnett with a capital of $30,000.00. Continue reading
The Marion and Eastern Railroad was purchased in 1917 from the Ernest Coal Company who owned the Eldorado, Marion and Southwestern Railroad for $60,000 dollars. The line was originally built in 1908 and was a short line railroad of 11.5 miles extending from Marion, Illinois to Paulton, Illinois. Continue reading
“The advent of the 1930s did bring more than the Great Depression to Williamson County, it also brought the first airport. Fred Valentin opened the Marion airport in January, 1930, two years after he received his pilot’s license. Continue reading
