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12,371
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$77,929
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Marion, AR - History
We would like to provide the residents of Marion a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Marion Home page. The Marion Home page provides as much information as possible on Marion. Knowing Marion’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Marion’s Home page, you will also find Marion’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Marion has a population of 12371. 51.2% of Marion’s inhabitants are Male, and 48.8 are female. 51.6% of Marion is married and 71.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $163,216, and the average rent is $873. Household median income in Marion is $77,929, and the individual median income is $38,543. Marion’s Ethnic is the following: White(53.4%), Black(35.3%), Multiple(9%), Hispanic(2.9%), Asian(1.6%), Native(0.6%), Other(0.1%).
Although Marion was incorporated in 1896, the community predates that significantly. The site of Marion was part of Louisiana (New Spain) from 1764 to 1803, when it became Louisiana (New France). Some of the oldest land titles in the area are from Spanish land grants from a time prior to the Louisiana Purchase.
After the Louisiana Purchase the area was part of the Arkansas Territory. During the 1830s the Trail of Tears, the forced removal of Native Americans from Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, passed through the area. Its location is close to where the Sultana Steamboat exploded and sunk. A memorial is placed on the city hall square to remember those who were lost in the accident. Marion, Arkansas was named after Marion Tolbert.
In 1837, two commissioners had been appointed by the county court to select a site for a new county seat. Tolbert and his wife, Temperance, gave a deed to the commissioners "for the county of Crittenden for county purposes" on June 25, 1837. A town was laid out and named Marion in honor of Marion Tolbert.
The town of Marion was officially made the county seat of Crittenden County, Arkansas. Marion has been incorporated on multiple occasions, first in 1851. The current incorporation dates from 1896. During the American Civil War the steamboat Sultana was destroyed in an explosion on April 27, 1865, as it was transporting released Union POWs near Mound City, just east of Marion.
It is estimated that 1,500 soldiers and crew were killed, the largest loss of life in a maritime accident in US history. This tragedy is commemorated by a historic marker placed by the Daughters of the American Revolution. In 1954, a local Black man, Isadore Banks was murdered by a mob in the town. He was chained to a tree, covered with gasoline and burned.
Nobody was ever charged in the killing.
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