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Marion is a city in and the county seat of Perry County, Alabama, United States. [2] As of the 2010 census, the population of the city is 3,686, up 4.8% over 2000. First known as Muckle Ridge, the city was renamed for a hero of the American Revolution, Francis Marion .
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Perry County is a county located in the Black Belt region in the central part of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,511. [1] Its county seat is Marion. [2] The county was established in 1819 and is named in honor of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry of Rhode Island and the United States Navy. [3]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Marion County, Alabama, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a Google map. [1]
A prominent Marion merchant, Mark A. Myatt, built his home on Green Street around 1845. Magnolia Hill was built in 1847 by the wealthy landowner King Parker and sold in 1866 to Archibald John Battle, President of Judson College (one of three antebellum colleges in Marion).
Marion Junction, also known as Bridges, is an unincorporated community in Dallas County, Alabama. [3]It is west of Selma, Ala., and south of Marion, Ala. . A site near Marion Junction known as Harrell Station is an important paleontological site where dinosaur and many other fossil species have been found.
Marion County is located in the northwestern part of the state, bounded on the west by the state of Mississippi. It encompasses 743 square miles (1,920 km 2 ). The county is a prohibition or dry county , however, the sale of alcohol is permitted within the cities of Guin , Hamilton , and Winfield .
Winfield is located in southern Marion County at (33.928258, -87.807990), [6] with a portion extending south into Fayette County U.S. Route 43 passes through the city, leading northwest 6.5 miles (10.5 km) to Guin and south 18 miles (29 km) to Fayette.