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
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The village of Pittsburg in Section 35 of Lake Creek Township was platted and developed in 1906 by John Colp. He planned a new industrial community patterned after Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Continue reading
“During the summer months, from 1850 to 1872, there was a class of men in this county known as teamsters, who followed the business of moving the products of the county to the railroads and rivers. In an early day nothing could be sent to market but such things as could walk. Ox teams were used up to 1866, when everybody commenced to use horses for teaming. Continue reading
In 1917, the Civics Committee of the Marion Woman’s Club approached former Marion resident Leroy A. Goddard with a request for help in constructing a Chapel. Continue reading
Augustus Nelson Lodge was born January 27, 1831 in Madison, Jefferson County, Indiana to Nelson and Rebecca Knox Lamond (sounded and later spelled as Lemon) as one of eight children. Continue reading
