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Myrtle Hill Bed & Breakfast
Marion, Alabama
Two impeccably restored antebellum homes and out buildings surrounded by 12 acres of beautiful Victorian gardens.
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First called Muckle Ridge, Marion was renamed in honor of Francis Marion, the "Swamp Fox," hero of the American Revolution. History abounds in Marion: Sam Houston, later of Texas fame, was married here to a local girl in 1840. The old City Hall (1832) is but one of many ante-bellum public buildings, churches and homes. The Southern and Northern Baptists split here in 1845 with the adoption of the "Alabama Resolution" by the Baptist State Convention. The first Confederate flag and the Confederate uniform were designed here by a teacher at the old Marion Female Seminary.
Marion is a growing city in Alabama that combines the best of the "old" and "new" South. Tradition and craft, combined with the desire to grow, are developing local resources into a better tomorrow.
Public Sites
- Alabama Military Hall of Honor Museum
- The Alabama Women's Hall of Fame
- Marion Railway Depot
- Perry County Courthouse
- The Alabama Baptist Building
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Education
- Female Seminary
- Judson College's First Campus
- Judson College Campus
- Lincoln Normal School Campus
- Marion Baptist Academy
- Marion Military Institute Campus
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Churches
- Berean Baptist Church
- First Congregationalist Church of Marion
- Marion Presbyterian Church
- Marion United Methodist Church
- Mount Tabor Methodist
- St. Wilfrid's Church and Cemetery
- Siloam Baptist Church
- Zion United Methodist Church
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Black Heritage
- Coretta Scott King's Home
- Home of Idella Jones Childs & Jean Childs Young
- Grave Site of Albert Turner, Sr.
- Grave Site of "Harry The Slave"
- Grave Site of Idella Childs
- Grave Site of Jimmy Lee Jackson
- Site of Jimmy Lee Jackson's Homicide
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Historic Homes
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Carlisle Hall
Governor's House
Holmestead
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Huntington-Watters
King-Colburn
Lea House
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Lockett-Martin
Lovelace-Lewis
Wiley-Harris
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Myrtle Hill Bed & Breakfast
303 West Lafayette Street
Marion, Alabama 36756
Gerald & Wanda Lewis, Innkeepers
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