The Marion Museum at Jennie’s House

Don’t forget! All are welcome! Please come prepared with a mask. Thank you!

April 24 was a busy day! Thanks to all who came out to support dedicating our new historic markers in Marion!

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Erotus Ave. around 1900. I don't have alot of information about Erotus Ave. I wonder if it was named after Erotus Warner, a local businessman. According to the dictionary, Erotus is a mathematical term meaning "difference". This one way road connects Mill St. and Union St. I think at one point it must have been the end of Union St. before the roadway for a cluster of local businesses became an actual street. What do you know about it?

The County Bicentennial Committee has been busy and one of our first projects was to verify dates the towns were established. It has been generally accepted that Marion was established on April 18, 1825 as the town of Winchester after it was separated from Williamson. However, when we went to the NYS Archives we realized there were different dates according to the wording of the act in the legislature. The law was passed on April 18, 1825 to establish the town of Winchester ...on the "first Monday of April next" which made the effective date of the Act on April 3, 1826. We also found that the renaming Act in Chap. 213 which changed the name from Winchester to Marion on April 15, 1826. Marion was only known as Winchester officially for 12 days. Eleven of the 13 towns in Wayne County also found similar date changes. Digitalized files have made this discovery possible. See more

Remembering Pearl Harbor today.

I remember a sixth grade field trip to the jail as part of a social studies class. I went to Wayne Central and this field trip was taken every year by sixth graders. Part of the trip was identifying architectural styles along the way. Mr. Bavis (now the Walworth Historian) and Mr. Howland now the Williamson Historian) were two of the teachers involved in the organization of the trip.

A little known local fact.

Marion is part of this story. More to come....

This is not local history but is awe inducing. The joinery involved is at at an unparalleled level. I researched it further and a woodworking site discussion agreed that the logs were squared and stacked not slid into each other but that does not diminish my appreciation for the skill it took to do these so perfectly.