History of Marion County Tennessee United States of America

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Marion County History

Marion County was erected in 1817 out of the Cherokee lands and was named for Gen. Francis Marion. It was organized in 1818 at the town of Liberty which remained the county seat until 1820 when it was removed to Jasper.

Marion County is noted for its mineral springs and for its coal and iron deposits.

Statistics of Marion County: Population, 1920, 17,402. Assessed valuation of taxable property, 1921, $12,448,090. Area, 500 square miles. Number of farms, 1,037. Railway mileage, 68. Drained by the Tennessee and Sequatchie rivers. Surface broken by high ridge running parallel with Cumberland Mountains. Soil is fertile and there is a fine timber growth. Staple products are corn, wheat, cotton, oats, hay and live stock. Coal is mined in considerable quantity. Jasper, the county seat, with a population of 728, is situated on the Sequatchie River and the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway, and has good churches, schools, weekly newspaper, and prosperous business establishments. South Pittsburg, with a population of 2,356, and Whitwell are other flourishing towns. Scholastic population of county, 6,981; high schools, 3; elementary schools, 58.

From:
Moore, John Trotwood. Tennessee, The Volunteer State, 1769-1923. Vol. 1. Chicago, IL, USA: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1923.

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