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  Marion County, Alabama   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Marion County was created by an act of the Alabama Territorial General Assembly on 1818 Feb. 13.
It is located in the northwestern part of the state, bounded on the west by the State of Mississippi.
The county was named for General Francis Marion of South Carolina.
www.archives.state.al.us /counties/marion.html   (80 words)

  
 Marion County, Alabama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marion County is a county of the U.S. state of Alabama.
Marion County was established on February 13, 1818.
Marion County is a part of Marion County Schools.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marion_County,_Alabama   (463 words)

  
 Marion, Alabama 36756 - History
Marion Military Institute is down the road and is home to the Alabama Military Hall of Honor.
At the 1844 meeting of the Alabama Baptist State Convention in Marion, the "Alabama Resolutions" were passed.
This was one of the factors that led to the 1845 formation of the Southern Baptist Convention in Augusta, Georgia.
www.ruthk.net /marion/history/history.html   (254 words)

  
 Marion Alabama Resource Guide, City or community of Marion, Alabama Facts, Information, Relocation, Real Estate, ...
The population of Marion is approximately 4,211 (1990).
The distance from Marion to Washington DC is 740 miles.
Marion is positioned 32.63 degrees north of the equator and 87.31 degrees west of the prime meridian.
www.usacitiesonline.com /alcountymarion.htm   (280 words)

  
 Marion, AL News
Alabama College System Interim Chancellor Dr. Thomas Corts is afraid he's been portrayed as someone who's "anti-Marion Military Institute." In a recent Birmingham News report, Corts said the state's recent...
Alabama Highway 14 Antique Trail is a new weekend long event to be held Sept. 15-17.
Agents with the Alabama Bureau of Investigation say 42-year-old Randy Lee Sims is accused of shooting 38-year-old Marie Sims late...
www.topix.net /city/marion-al?full=   (676 words)

  
 Marion, Alabama 36756
MARION, the county seat of PERRY COUNTY is located in the west central part of Alabama.
Marion is home to both Judson College (1838) and Marion Military Institute (1842) and was the site of the Lincoln Normal School (1867).
Since Marion is a college city, you'll find it has many advantages over most other small towns.
www.marionalabama.org   (161 words)

  
 King Encyclopedia
Born on 27 April 1927 in Heiberger, Alabama, Coretta Scott spent her childhood on a farm owned by her parents, Obadiah "Obie" Scott and Bernice McMurray.
Despite the initial objections of King's parents, who wanted King to marry a woman from his hometown of Atlanta, the two were married at the Scott family home near Marion on 18 June 1953.
During much of her husband's very public career, Coretta King remained out of the public spotlight, raising the couple's four children: Yolanda Denise (1955), Martin Luther III (1957), Dexter Scott (1961), and Bernice Albertine (1963).
www.stanford.edu /group/King/about_king/encyclopedia/king_coretta_scott.htm   (933 words)

  
 Marion, Alabama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marion is the county seat of Perry County, Alabama
Howard College was founded in Marion in 1842, and moved to Birmingham in 1887, later becoming Samford University.
The high school merged with Marion High School during the federally-ordered desegregation of the 1960s.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marion,_Alabama   (486 words)

  
 Alabama Women's Hall of Fame
The Alabama Women's Hall of Fame is located in Marion, Alabama, on the campus of Judson College in the beautifully restored A. Howard Bean Hall.
The Alabama Women's Hall of Fame, which occupies the main floor, was established to provide a permanent place of honor for Alabama's most outstanding women and a place for people to visit and learn about the significant contributions that these women have made to our state and nation.
The board is from a cross section of the state and represents broad areas of interest.To nominate a woman for this honor, call (334) 683-5167 or use the printable FORM and mail to AWHF, Judson College, 302 Bibb Street, Marion, AL 36756.
www.awhf.org   (214 words)

  
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This flag was made in Marion, Alabama, and painted by Nicola Marschall.
When the 4th Alabama was brigaded under General Bernard Bee all of the company flags with the exception of this one, were turned over to the company officials.
The flag was presented to the Alabama Department of Archives and History by Mrs.
www.archives.state.al.us /referenc/flags/018019.html   (315 words)

  
 Marion County, Alabama Genealogical Records Information
Which includes Marion County, Alabama County Records, Marion County, Alabama History, Marion County, Alabama Facts, Marion County, Alabama Genealogical Addresses and websites related to Marion County, Alabama Genealogy in general.
OR maybe you have some free time and want to earn a little extra money running errands and helping someone in desperate need of a document in the local county courthouse, library, or archive, or maybe take a picture of a tombstone in a local cemetery or of a house across town.
Nichols and Related Families of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virgina.
www.myalabamagenealogy.com /al_county/mrn.htm   (848 words)

  
 Zitella Cocke: ALABAMA'S FORGOTTEN POET Alabama Heritage - Find Articles
FROM HER HOME IN BOSTON, Zitella Cocke reacted with self-effacing surprise to the news that Dr. Thomas M. Owen, head of the Alabama Department of Archives and History, wanted to include her in his four-volume History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography.
BORN IN MARION IN 1840 TO Woodson and Mary Binion Cocke, Julia Zitella Cocke was the oldest of eight children.
Life in antebellum Alabama held great promise for the Gocke family, but their lives changed when Alabama seceded from the union.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa4113/is_200507/ai_n14779009   (847 words)

  
 Marion, Alabama 36756 - Perry Lakes/Barton's Beach Parks
The Fisheries Section of the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources is considering logging the mature trees in the Marion Hatchery Woods.
Perry Lakes Park and the adjacent Marion Hatchery woods represent a bottomland hardwood forest of the Cahaba River.
The Park is located five miles east of Marion, near the State Fish Hatchery on State Hy 175.Perry Lakes Park is positioned between the Marion State Fish Hatchery and the Barton's Beach Cahaba River Preserve.
www.perrylakes.org   (1043 words)

  
 Myrtle Hill Bed & Breakfast - Marion, Alabama - BBOnline.com / Area Attractions
First called Muckle Ridge, Marion was renamed in honor of Francis Marion, the "Swamp Fox," hero of the American Revolution.
The Southern and Northern Baptists split here in 1845 with the adoption of the "Alabama Resolution" by the Baptist State Convention.
Marion is a growing city in Alabama that combines the best of the "old" and "new" South.
www.bbonline.com /al/myrtlehill/attractions.html   (192 words)

  
 AFRICAN AMERICANS IN MARION
In honor of his courage and dedication to the Movement, he was chosen SCLC to lead the mule train that carried Dr. King to his funeral.
The school system in Marion, AL was characterized by the racial discrimination commonly practiced throughout the South.
Young was wsas affected by the tightly knit fl community in Marion.
www.bama.ua.edu /~aast/marion/blackmarion.htm   (595 words)

  
 Marion, Alabama 36756 - Barton's Beach Park
Barton's Beach is one of the outstanding birding areas in central Alabama.
Closure of the Southeastern Fish Cultural Laboratory in Marion in 1994 dealt a severe blow to the Marion community, but, it opened the door for the restoration of the old Perry Lakes Park.
The first meeting of the Perry Lakes planning session was called by Judge Cook and was attended by representatives of the Marion Hatchery, Marion Mayor Daniel, Bob Reid of the Birmingham Audubon Society, Randy Haddock of the Cahaba River Society, and Thomas Wilson, Judson College biologist and environmental activist.
www.perrylakes.org /bartonsbeach/bartonsbeachhistory.html   (511 words)

  
 Foster Families of Marion County, Alabama
Joel was on the 1820 Census of Lincoln County, TN and the 1830 Census of Marion County, AL.
It is said that Joel followed his sons Ambrose and Benjamin to Marion County, AL 1823/24 with all of the family except his son James Littleton Foster, who with his brother-in-law Samuel Moore bought the Foster land.
Jeremiah Sr was in the same age group, born in the same place, and moved to the Marion, Alabama, area about the same time......as did Joel Lewis Foster and Thomas Lloyd Foster.
home.att.net /~ztlcox/foster/marionfosters.html   (1815 words)

  
 Marion, Alabama Historic Districts
Among those are the Eagle hotel where Colonel Sam Houston is believed to have stayed during his visit to Marion and the home where he and Margaret Lea married.
The district also includes the original site of the Alabama Baptist newspaper, Marion Presbyterian Church, and the Berean Baptist Church.
The Perry County Courthouse, St. Wilfrid's Episcopal Church, the Female Seminary, Zion and Marion United Methodist Churches, and stores which housed Marion's early merchants are a few of the points of interest in this district.
www.ruthk.net /marion/tourism/histroricdistricts.html   (179 words)

  
 Marion, Alabama AL, city profile (Perry County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
Alabama > All counties > Perry County > Marion
At the time of the 2000 census, the per capita income in Marion was $11,934, compared with $21,587 nationally.
Median rent in Marion, at the time of the 2000 Census, was $200.
www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=12064   (757 words)

  
 Marion, Alabama
Marion, Alabama, in Perry county, is 42 miles S of Tuscaloosa, Alabama and 186 miles SW of Atlanta, Georgia.
Marion is known for its large population of single adults.
In 2000, Marion had a median family income of $29,663.
www.citytowninfo.com /places/alabama/marion   (317 words)

  
 Old Howard 100 Bike Ride, Marion, Alabama
Riders continue southeastward, past imposing antebellum mansions, through the downtown historic district of Marion and across the Cahaba River for the final 30-mile loop through the Perry Lakes wetlands region of southeastern Perry County.
The University was born there as Howard College, in the town of Marion, in 1841.
The Baptist college, which took its name from the 18th century English prison reformer John Howard, thrived in Marion thanks in large measure to the generosity of the town’s citizens.
www.samford.edu /groups/oldhoward100   (662 words)

  
 CNN.com - Coretta Scott King dies - Jan 31, 2006
It had been more than 20 years since she oversaw the first legal holiday in honor of her husband, a holiday that has come to be celebrated in some form in over 100 countries, according to her biography on The King Center Web site.
Born in Marion, Alabama, on April 27, 1927, Coretta Scott graduated as valedictorian of her high school class and attended Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
As the young pastor began his civil rights work in Montgomery, Alabama, Coretta Scott King worked closely with him, organizing marches and sit-ins at segregated restaurants while raising their four children: Yolanda Denise, Martin Luther III, Dexter Scott and Bernice Albertine.
www.cnn.com /2006/US/01/31/obit.king/index.html   (983 words)

  
 Marion, Alabama Copywriters - Copy Writer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Here are the most recent Marion, Alabama copywriter vendors that have requested a listing on Marketingtool.com.
This Marion, Alabama copywriter featured listing has received 37 unique visitors in the past three months.
Click here to learn more about why a Marketingtool.com Marion copy writer featured listing is one of the best methods of advertising your business.
www.marketingtool.com /channel/copy/b.457.g.6380.html   (288 words)

  
 Marion, Alabama Videographers - Videography Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Here are the most recent Marion, Alabama videographer vendors that have requested a listing on Marketingtool.com.
This Marion, Alabama videographer featured listing has received 110 unique visitors in the past three months.
Click here to learn more about why a Marketingtool.com Marion videography service featured listing is one of the best methods of advertising your business.
www.marketingtool.com /channel/videographers/b.504.g.6380.html   (242 words)

  
 Find Churches in Marion Junction Alabama - FlockFinder.com
One thing which is true, not just for churches in Marion Junction Alabama, but for churches across America, is that parents want to attend a church where children are given special attention and focus.
It is for this very purpose that FlockFinder has an area devoted to churches in Marion Junction Alabama that have ministries designed for children.
churches in Marion Junction Alabama can utilize this section to say in their own words, what the childrens service is really like.
www.flockfinder.com /churches_alabama/marion_junction/churches_marion_junction_alabama.html   (590 words)

  
 Marion County, Alabama
The county was named for General Frances Marion of South Carolina.
At this time there is no Volunteer Coordinator for Marion County.
If you are interested in becoming the Coordinator for this county, please complete the Volunteer Form or contact Joe Reynolds.
www.reynoldsrecords.com /alabama/marion.html   (177 words)

  
 Marion, Alabama Bed and Breakfast - Marion B&B from Pamela Lanier
Marion, Alabama Bed and Breakfast - Marion B&B from Pamela Lanier
For over 20 years, Pamela Lanier's Travel Guides have been the savvy travelers' key to great deals on quality, romantic Marion, Alabama bed and breakfast lodging and country inns.
Search our database of Marion B&Bs and you'll find detailed listings, current rates, and special deals for bed and breakfasts in Marion, Alabama.
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 Myrtle Hill Bed & Breakfast - Marion, Alabama - BBOnline.com / Introduction
Johnston served as Mayor of Marion (1856) and a member of the Alabama Legislature (1857-58).
After the Civil War, General Johnston was Commandant of Cadets at the University of Alabama.
Marion is the home of the Confederate Stars & Bars, the Alabama Military Hall of Honor and the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame.
www.bbonline.com /al/myrtlehill   (296 words)

  
 Donavan Lakes Fishing Club - Marion, Alabama
Donavan Lakes Fishing Club is located on Perry County 38 (four miles south of Marion on Hy 45; take Perry County 38 west for one mile; Donavan Club sign and gate on the right).
Or, if traveling on State Hy 5, go six miles south of Marion and take Perry County 38 east for 2.1 miles; Club sign and gate will be on the left.
Tina Russell from Heiberger, Alabama, caught a 13 1/2 lb bass from the Lake Ely pier in May of 2001.
donavanlakes.org   (1791 words)

  
 Briarpatch Hunting Preserve, Marion, Alabama
Briarpatch Hunting Preserve is located 10 miles south of Marion, Perry County, on the Blackbelt Prairie in west-central Alabama.
Briarpatch Preserve has no sleeping accommodations but Marion (10 miles) and Selma (20 miles) have numerous motels and bed-and-breakfast places.
Briarpatch hunters receive a discount both for hunting and for accommodations when staying at the Donavan Inn in Marion.
briarpatchhunt.com   (361 words)

  
 Marion New Homes - Find New and Custom Homes in Marion, alabama
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