Samuel Knox Casey was born to Jesse M. and Cynthia Casey on a farm four miles north of Marion on March 6, 1865. Continue reading
The first official Marion City Hall appears to have manifested with the building of the Marion State and Savings Bank building being erected in 1903. Continue reading
This map captures current active towns and villages, railroads and creeks that existed in 1905. It was published in the 1905 Souvenir Book. Note that there were 14 precincts then instead of 12. Western, Northern, Saline and Rock Creek precincts no longer exist and Union is now Southern.
A Pictorial History of Williamson County
The Nannie Gray Parks map of Williamson County, Illinois, as the county existed in 1839 when it was created from the southern half of Franklin County, has been called Nannie Gray Parks’ greatest achievement by Homer Butler, who for many years wrote a column called “Glances at Life” which appeared in the Marion Daily Republican newspaper, and which served to remind us so often of our county’s colorful, sometimes riotous, history, is also responsible for calling the map a pictorial history of Williamson County’s early years. Continue reading