I-57 is Biggest of Marion’s Assets
“Interstate Rt. 57 is the biggest asset ever to come to Marion.”
Banker Oscar Schafale’s opinion is shared by others.
Franklyn Moreno, Greater Egypt Regional Planning and Development Commission, said I-57 with its connections to Interstate Rts. 24 and 64 and a proposed Southern Illinois freeway to St. Louis make “everything coming at Marion. It enhances it as being a central location.” Continue reading
Use of Radar Cuts Marion Speed Rate
Use of radar has cut speeding in Marion, Police Commissioner Bob Yearack said Monday.
The radar was put into used November 7th. Yearack said 20 persons driving from 11 to 16 miles per hour over the limits were ticketed since then. Continue reading
The land on which 500 S. Court Street now stands, was deeded to Samuel Aikman by the United States of America on February 11, 1839. This was part of a large land purchase of 640 acres at $1.25 an acre. That same year, the city of Marion as well as Williamson County was established. In the decades preceding the Civil War, Samuel sold the land to his son Thomas, who in turn, sold it to his brother William Aikman. Continue reading
For one hundred and fifteen years, that portion of Illinois that lies south of the old Vincennes-St. Louis Trace has been known affectionately as Egypt. The old road is no more. Travel today rolls along on U.S. Highway 50 or the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, both of which practically follow the old Trace. Twenty-eight counties make up Egypt, being those counties which lie south of the line of demarcation or are cut by it.
In all the history books considerable space is given to “the winter of the deep snow.” That was the winter of 1830-31. Continue reading
At the close of the Revolutionary War, a great many soldiers were discharged and sent home without their pay. To remedy this, the Continental Congress passed an act granting to every such discharged soldier one hundred acres of land, to be selected by him within a prescribed territory; and on October 22nd, 1787, that congress set off as a reservation for that purpose, a portion of land in the Northwest Territory, described and bounded as follows: Continue reading