Ohio History Journal

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MARION CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION

MARION CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION

 

 

BY J. WILBUR JACOBY

 

OUTLINE OF HISTORY OF MARION COUNTY

In this centenary year for the city of Marion, it is

not inappropriate to preface this article with a brief

outline of the history of Marion County.   Marion

County was named after the famous Revolutionary

General, Francis Marion, and attached to Delaware

County by act of February 20, 1820.  For more than

twenty-five years thereafter the southern limit of the

county was the Greenville treaty line.  This treaty

signed with the Indians in 1795 held back all but "squat-

ter settlements" to the north thereof for almost a gen-

eration.

On August 15, 1820, the first tracts of land in the

county north of the Greenville treaty line were offered

for sale. From that time on, a steady stream of im-

migrants flowed hither into every part of the county.

They came from the older counties to the south; from

Kentucky and Virginia; from the New England States

and New York; from far-off Maine came the founder

of Marion; lastly and most numerously they came from

Pennsylvania - plain, simple, Dutch stock, young and

vigorous, to hew a future home out of the virgin forest.

Thus while the northeast part of our state was settled

by Yankees; the southeast by the Massachusetts sol-

diers of the Revolution; the Virginia Military lands of

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