03/01/21 This is a photo taken by SC Gurnee on February 3, 1902 of a fire on the corner where the town hall now stands. It burned down two stores, a barbershop, the Rice Block and the William’s house. The fir... > The Marion Museum at Jennie’s House
02/26/21 The circus came to town fairly regularly a hundred years ago. In 1908, the first performance by A. F. Wheeler Circus was May 5 according to the Newark Courier. Local prosperity was one of the dete... > The Marion Museum at Jennie’s House
02/22/21 This postcard from 1916 shows the Marion Collegiate Institute, a college preparatory/high school located in Marion about where the Marion Elementary School gymnasium is now. The sender writes," This... > The Marion Museum at Jennie’s House