Marion
Boyhood Home of Warren G. Harding
Caledonia, OH
Boyhood home (1872-1881) of Warren G. Harding, 29th president of the United States.
Camp Marion, World War II Prisoners of War, 1944-1946
This site was once a twenty-four acre camp for Prisoners of War established on the grounds of the Marion Engineer Depot.
Claridon Prairie
This grass land, extending one mile east between the road and the railway, is one of the few surviving remnants of the once extensive...
Cummin’s Home
Marion, OH
Thomas Stinson Cummin, owner of a successful dry goods store, built his home in the early 1870s on the outskirts of the growing village...
Harrison Military Road, War of 1812
Waldo, OH
The first road through Marion County followed the Scioto Trail of the Native Americans.
Home of the Oorang Indians, NFL’s Most Colorful Franchise
La Rue, OH
The Oorang Indian football team was founded by LaRue native Walter Lingo (1890-1966), owner of the Oorang Airedale Dog Kennels.
Jacob’s Well
Marion, OH
Jacob Foos, while surveying the Military Road north from Fort Morrow to Fremont during the War of 1812, dug a well at this site.
Marion County Courthouse
Marion, OH
This is Marion County’s fourth courthouse and the second at this site.
Marion Mausoleum
Marion, OH
The Marion Mausoleum represents a time in early 20th-century America in which burial practices changed because of advances in engineering...
Marion Steam Shovel
Marion, OH
The Marion Steam Shovel Company built the primary tools for America’s civil engineering for more than 100 years.
Norman Mattoon Thomas
Marion, OH
Was born on this site Nov. 20, 1884.
Old Marion Cemetery- Also known as the Quarry Street or Pioneer Cemetery
Marion, OH
Marion founder Eber Baker donated this two-acre plot for use as a cemetery shortly after platting the village in 1822.
Sawyer Sanatorium at White Oaks Farm
Marion, OH
Doctors Charles Elmer Sawyer and his son, Carl Walker Sawyer, opened Sawyer Sanatorium on White Oaks Farm in 1911.
Scioto Ordnance Plant Site
On March 2, 1942, four months after the U.S. entered WWII, farmers living between Marion-Williamsport and Marseilles-Galion Roads and...
The “Old Blockhouse” Site
The U.S. Army built a two-story blockhouse on a nearby hill during the War of 1812.
The Marion Engineer Depot
Early in 1942, during World War II, the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers acquired 640 acres along two miles of U. S. Route 30 South (now...
World War II Displacement
During the early months of World War II, ordinary citizens as well as soldiers made enormous sacrifices for the war effort.