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<div style="font-size:162%;border:none;margin: 0;padding:.1em;color:#000">Welcome to WikiMarion.org,</div>
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<div style="top: 0.2em;font-size: 95%">A site devoted to the history of Marion, Indiana and surrounding areas, created by students at Marion High School for the Community History Project</div>
 
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<h2 style="margin:0;background:#cef2e0;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a3bfb1;text-align:left;color:#000;padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Rough Times</h2>
 
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|style="color:#000"|Oral histories collected by students in Advanced Placement US History and Advanced Placement English at Marion High School
 
[[Rough_Times_Introduction|Introduction]][[Image:V001794r.jpg|200px|thumb|Hill's Grocery World War II]]
 
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*[[Jesse and Ann Ballard]]<br>
 
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<h2 style="margin:0;background:#cef2e0;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a3bfb1;text-align:left;color:#000;padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Made in Marion</h2>
 
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*[[U.S. Glove Company]]
 
*[[Coca Cola Plant]]
 
*[[Canton Glass Company]]
 
*[[Indiana Truck Corporation]]
 
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|style="color:#000"|[[Image:Trolley_Sample_for_front.jpg|thumb|Trolleys of Marion]]Some content on WikiMarion can be viewed in geographic context using Google Earth. More will followTo learn about geographic content click [[Google_Earth_Samples|here]].
 
 
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40.527142, -85.664091, [[image:McCullough1924_large.jpg|200px]]<br>[[J.L.McCulloch School]]
 
40.555939, -85.660207, [[Image:Marion_Public_Library.jpg|200px]]<br>[[Carnegie Building]]
 
40.564, -85.665443, [[Image:Marion_General_Hospital_2.jpg|200px]]<br>[[Marion General Hospital]]
 
40.558433, -85.666827, [[image:MHSrebuilt1.jpg|200px]]<br>Old [[Marion High School]]
 
40.41241, -85.646185, [[Image:Fairmount_High_School_Photo.jpg|200px]]<br>[[Fairmount High School]]
 
40.415024, -85.650734, [[Image:Scott_Opera_House.jpg|200px]]<br>[[Scott Opera House]]
 
40.518513, -85.668501, [[image:Teter_Hall_at_Marion_Normal.jpg|200px]]<br>[[Teter Hall]]
 
40.556714, -85.659735, [[Image:JimmyS.JPG|200px]]<br>[[Marion Civic Theatre]]
 
40.55532, -85.66083, [[Image:Jay_Residence.jpg|200px]]<br>[[Abijah C. Jay House]]
 
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40.562912, -85.669517, [[Image:PercyNussbaumHouse.jpg|200px]]<br>[[Percy Nussbaum House]]
 
40.554007, -85.659521, [[Image:Seeker_House.jpg|200px]]<br>[[Seeker House]]
 
40.552646, -85.660213, [[image:New_York_Sanitarium.jpg|200px]]<br>[[Seeker_House#Charles_Kile.27s_Sanitarium|New York Sanitarium]]
 
40.465313, -85.735827, [[Image:PattengaleFarm.jpg|200px]]<br>[[Pattengale House]]
 
40.564039, -85.668023, [[Image:MunnHouseArticle.jpg|200px]]<br>[[Munn House]]
 
40.579289, -85.674436, [[Image:Kleder_House.jpg|200px]]<br>[[Kleder House]]
 
40.589336, -85.733775, [[Image:TawatawHouse.jpg|200px]]<br>[[Nelson Tawataw Home]]
 
40.558067, -85.664121, [[Image:Painted_Lady.JPG|300px]]<br>[[The Painted Lady]]
 
40.524498, -85.662747, [[Image:3701_South_Nebraska_St.jpg|200px]]<br>[[3701 South Nebraska Street]]
 
40.562601, -85.667114, [[Image:Phipps_House.jpg|200px]]<br>[[Phipps House]]
 
40.563029, -85.659531, [[Image:Meyer_House.jpg|200px]]<br>[[Meyer House]]
 
40.574644, -85.659349, [[Image:Charles_Mill.jpg|200px]]<br>[[Charles Mill]]
 
40.559456, -85.663179, [[Image:Ken%27s_Barbershop.jpg|200px]]<br>[[Ken's Barbershop]]
 
40.557741, -85.660223, [[Image:Marion_National_Completed.jpg|200px]]<br>[[Marion National Bank]]
 
40.562456, -85.660046, [[Image:DavisClinic.jpg|200px]]<br>[[Davis Clinic]]
 
40.553954, -85.658786, [[Image:Howard_Auto_Sales_Sign.jpg|200px]]<br>[[Howard Auto Sales]]
 
40.552112, -85.663115, [[Image:Bethel_A.M.E._Church.JPG|200px]]<br>[[Bethel A.M.E. Church]]
 
40.544689, -85.65267, [[Image:Marion_Paper_Box_Angle.JPG|200px]]<br>[[Marion Paper Box]]
 
40.547689, -85.658281, [[Image:Platonian2.jpg|200px]]<br>[[Platonian Apartments]]
 
40.592016, -85.660615, [[Image:Country_Club_Postcard.jpg|200px]]<br>[[Meshingomesia Country Club]]
 
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40.545642, -85.659818, [[Image:Third_expansion.jpg|200px]]<br>[[Coca Cola Plant]]
 
40.489912, -85.679626, [[Image:Old_Terminal_1.jpg|200px]]<br>[[Marion Municipal Airport]]
 
40.588686, -85.674125, [[Image:Woodside.jpg|200px]]<br>[[Woodside]] - A Frank Lloyd Wright house
 
40.518991, -85.667535, [[Image:MarionCollegeArch.jpg|200px]]<br>[[Marion College]]
 
40.562411, -85.667841, [[Image:Broughman_House_1939.jpg|200px]]<br>[[Broughman House]]
 
40.559004, -85.657654, [[image:V003109r.jpg|200px]]<br>[[Old Grant County Jail]]
 
40.55761, -85.667809, [[Image:V002469r.jpg|200px]]<br>[[Wilson-Vaughan Hostess House]]
 
40.487974, -85.637419, [[Image:Israel_Jenkins_House.jpg|200px]]<br>[[Israel Jenkins House]]
 
40.559444, -85.659724, [[image:V002715r.jpg|200px]]<br>[[Columbian Block]]
 
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Revision as of 10:09, 22 June 2007

Welcome to WikiMarion.org,
A site devoted to the history of Marion, Indiana and surrounding areas, created by students at Marion High School for the Community History Project

This Old House

Histories of Significant Structures in Grant County
The Wilson-Vaughan Hostess House

more...

Rough Times

Oral histories collected by students in Advanced Placement US History and Advanced Placement English at Marion High School Introduction
Hill's Grocery World War II

more...

Google Earth Content

Trolleys of Marion
Some content on WikiMarion can be viewed in geographic context using Google Earth. More will follow. To learn about geographic content click here.

Lest We Forget

Reminiscences of the Pioneers of Grant County, Indiana -- Oral Histories collected by Marion High School students in 1921.
Octogenarian Club

Preface