Marion Street Lighting Improvement Planned
Plans are being prepared for improvement of Marion Street lighting, Commissioner Robert Connell said Monday.
One third of the old incandescent type street lights will be converted to mercury vapor lights. Continue reading
The following list is a compilation of all active Williamson County mines in 1904. It gives the name, physical location within the county, depth of coal, thickness of the vein, type of tipple in use, mine capacity and in some cases its time in operation. Continue reading
It should go without saying that coal mining, even today, is a hazardous occupation. Needless to say, it was even more so in the early days when miners dealt with mules, hazardous gas, open flame lamps and sticks of dynamite on a daily basis. Because so many early mining deaths went unreported except for footnotes in the local papers, many of the stories of miners dying doing their job remain a blank in genealogical family trees. The following list is a compilation of accidents occurring in Williamson County between 1897 and 1904 inclusive taken from the 1905 Souvenir History of the county. Continue reading
Lack Bradley “L.B.” Hunter, Marion Chief of Police from 1968 to 1985, was born June 21, 1930, in Marion to George Hunter and Lelle Bradley on N. Madison Street. Hunter attended Marion schools and graduated Marion Township High School. His father, George Hunter, was a full blooded Scotsman who came to America in 1902 to work the local coal mines.
When the 1930 census was taken, the Hunter family was living at 913 N. Madison Street which they owned and valued at $2,000. George and Lelle were both 33 and their only child, Lack, was an infant. George was working as a coal miner for the Wallace Coal Company. Continue reading
James D. Long was an early City Marshall, Marion Chief of Police and according his obituary, the first Fire Chief of Marion. He was born on June 17, 1875 in University City, Tennessee to Arthur R. Long and Louise E. Warren.
Five years after James’ birth, the 1880 census found the Long family living in Stewarts, Kentucky. His father, Arthur, was listed as a mechanic. The entire family was, oddly enough, only listed by initials Continue reading