Gabriel Marion

When Capt. John Nelson, sent by Gen. Marion, Jan., 1781, to the Sampit Road to reconnoitre, met Capt. Barfield and his Tories near White’s Bridge, a sharp fight ensued. Lieut. Gabriel Marion, nephew of Gen. Marion, was captured and inhumanely ...

Marion 1150 Dragline Bucket

In the 1950's the Pierce, South Agnew and Morton mines utilized a Marion 1150 Dragline to strip off the glacial till from above the iron ore body. This stripping bucket was on that Hanna Mining Company dragline. Several of the ...

Engagement at Marion

A Small Town Survives

Throughout 1864, Federal raids against the Confederate infrastructure in East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia attempted to destroy iron and lead mines, salt works and railroads. The Virginia & Tennessee Railroad, the Confederate lifeline to the Deep South, ...

Battle of Marion

Here, on December 17-18, 1864, General Stoneman, raiding to Saltville, fought an engagement with John C. Breckinridge, Confederate commander in southwest Virginia.

Marker is on North Main Street (U.S. 11), on the right when traveling north.

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Marion P. Carnell Bridge

Honoring Greenwood County

native and lifelong

resident of Ware Shoals

for his dedicated public

service and contributions

to sound government

as a member

S.C. House of Representatives

1961 - 64 1967 -

Marker is on East Main Street.

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Marion Academy

This building, the first public school in Marion County, was built in 1886 by the Marion Academy Society, chartered in 1811. The Society, which had operated a private school here for almost seventy-years, then turned the school over to the ...

Marion (Indiana) W.W. I Honor Roll

Marion Boys

who gave their lives in

the World War

[ Row One ]

Vaugh Beekman • Melvin Bookins • Chester Biggs • Victor Baughman • Fred Button • Ashton Baldwin • Harry Lee Craig • William Cromwell (Col.) • Russel Denton ...

Patriot Departs to Ride with Marion

During the American Revolution, August 1780, General Francis Marion was ordered by General Gates to roam the Santee burning boats. Being successfully engaged in this task, he learned of Gates’ defeat at Camden. This Patriot left his family at Scott's ...

The Elusive Francis Marion: Guerrilla Commander

Disastrous American defeats during the Revolutionary War at Charleston and Camden in the summer of 1780 led many South Carolinians to give up the fight for independence. But Francis Marion carried on the struggle, waging a guerrilla war in the ...

The Elusive Francis Marion: The Stuff of Legend

For what he did in less than three years during the Revolutionary War, Francis Marion won enduring fame. By the nineteenth century he was remembered as the Swamp Fox, the partisan commander who always eluded the British and their Loyalist ...