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Welcome to Texas Genealogy
Trails!
*Volunteers dedicated
to putting free data online.*
Marion County Website is available for adoption.
If interested in joining our group, view our Volunteer
Information Page and contact
Kim.
[Basic webpage design
knowledge and a desire to transcribe data is required]
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Marion County was demarked from the southern portion of Cass County
by an act of the state legislature on February 8, 1860. Territorial
additions in 1863 and 1874 extended its southern boundary to include
both banks of Big Cypress Bayou. The county was named for American
Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion, the "Swamp Fox." Due to
a large natural log-jam and collection of snags on the Red River, known
as the Red River Raft, which formed a series of navigable lakes and
bayous in the river valleys of Marion County, Jefferson, founded in the
early 1840s, rapidly developed a booming river trade with New Orleans.
Jefferson quickly became the favored inland Texas port for the deposit
and transport of North Texas agricultural produce. Thus, Marion County
became the commercial conduit for frontier Texas and did not relinquish
this position until the establishment of transcontinental rail links
that bypassed its wharves in the mid-1870s. Jefferson is the county
seat.
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Marion County Museum and Courthouse
Jefferson, Texas
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