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40-1792: Marion High School may refer to: United States [ edit ] Marion High School (Alabama) , Marion, Alabama Marion High School (Arkansas) , Marion, Arkansas Marion High School (Illinois) , Marion, Illinois Marion High School (Indiana) , Marion, Indiana Marion High School (Iowa) , Marion, Iowa Marion High School (Kansas) , Marion, Kansas Marion High School (Louisiana) , Marion, Louisiana Marian High School (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan) Marion High School (Marion, Michigan) Marion Local High School (Maria Stein, Ohio) Marion High School (South Carolina) , Marion, South Carolina Marion High School (South Dakota) , Marion, South Dakota Marion High School (Texas) , Marion, Texas Marion Senior High School (Virginia) , Marion, Virginia Marion High School (Wisconsin) , Marion, Wisconsin Marion County High School (disambiguation) Australia [ edit ] Marion High School (South Australia) , Clovelly Park, South Australia (closed in 1996) See also [ edit ] East Marion High School , Columbia, Mississippi North Marion High School (Florida) , Citra, Florida North Marion High School (Aurora, Oregon) North Marion High School (West Virginia) , Rachel, West Virginia West Marion High School , Foxworth, Mississippi Marion Center Area High School , Marion Center, Pennsylvania Marion L. Steele High School , Amherst, Ohio Marion-Franklin High School , Columbus, Ohio Litchville-Marion High School , Marion, North Dakota [REDACTED] Topics referred to by

80-531: A Superior Court and Sheriff (as an officer of the court ), both located in a designated "shire town". Bennington County, Vermont has two shire towns; the court for "North Shire" is in the shire town Manchester , and the Sheriff for the county and court for "South Shire" are in the shire town Bennington. In 2024, Connecticut , which had not defined their counties for anything but statistical, historical and weather warning purposes since 1960, along with ending

120-644: A Date With an Angel" and "Three Little Fishies". In 1992, Hal Kemp was inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame. Coretta Scott King , wife of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. , was born in Marion in 1927 and spent her childhood there. She graduated from Lincoln Normal School as valedictorian in 1945. The couple got married on the front lawn of her mother's home north of Marion in 1953. A number of significant events occurred in Marion relating to

160-521: A German-American artist, is generally credited with designing both the first official Confederate flag and the grey Confederate army uniform while a teacher at the old Marion Female Seminary . With the coming Civil War in 1861, Nicola Marschall was approached in February by Mary Clay Lockett, wife of prominent attorney Napoleon Lockett of Marion, and her daughter, Fannie Lockett Moore, daughter-in-law of Alabama Governor Andrew B. Moore of Marion, to design

200-410: A county seat may be an independent city surrounded by, but not part of, the county of which it is the administrative center; for example, Fairfax City is both the county seat of Fairfax County, Virginia and completely surrounded by Fairfax County, but the city is politically independent of the county. When the county seat is in the independent city, government offices such as the courthouse may be in

240-528: A flag for the new Confederacy. Marschall offered three designs, one of which became the "Stars and Bars," the first official flag of the Confederate States of America (C.S.A.), first raised in Montgomery, Alabama, on March 4, 1861. At the turn of the century in 1900, Perry County peaked in population at 31,783. This is three times the population of the county in the 2010 census. Hal Kemp ,

280-563: A jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader, composer and arranger was born in Marion in 1904 and died in Madera, California, following an auto accident in 1940. His band was very popular from 1934 until 1939. Major recordings in 1936 include " There's a Small Hotel " and "When I'm With You" both number one hits for two weeks. In 1937, his number one hits were " This Year's Kisses ", which was number one for four weeks, and " Where or When ", number one for one week. Other noted recordings were "Got

320-647: A three-year-old family feud turned into a 150-man riot outside the town's city hall resulting in the arrest of eight people and the hospitalization of two. In early 2016, the New York Times reported the city was the center of an outbreak of tuberculosis . In 2014–15 twenty people in the area had contracted active cases of the disease and three had died. Marion has many historic structures, with most listed on historic registers directly or as contributing buildings . The Chapel and Lovelace Hall at Marion Military Institute , First Congregational Church of Marion ,

360-575: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Marion, Alabama Marion is a city in and the county seat of Perry County, Alabama , United States. As of the 2010 census, the population of the city is 3,686, up 4.8% over 2000. First known as Muckle Ridge, the city was renamed for a hero of the American Revolution, Francis Marion . Two colleges, Judson College (Alabama) and Marion Military Institute , are located in Marion. This

400-409: Is known as the seat of its county. Generally, the county legislature, county courthouse, sheriff's department headquarters, hall of records, jail and correctional facility are located in the county seat, though some functions (such as highway maintenance, which usually requires a large garage for vehicles, along with asphalt and salt storage facilities) may also be located or conducted in other parts of

440-662: Is noted in the city's welcome sign referring to Marion as "The College City". Of the 573 cities in Alabama, Marion is the 152nd most populous. Formerly the territory of the Creek Indians , Marion was founded shortly after 1819 as Muckle Ridge. In 1822 the city was renamed in honor of Francis Marion , the "Swamp Fox," hero of the American Revolutionary War . Marion incorporated as a town the same year and later became Perry County's second county seat as

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480-599: Is recognized as the catalyst for James Bevel to call and organize the first Selma to Montgomery March on March 7. It was not until 2007 that Fowler was indicted for murder for his role in Jackson's death. In 2010, Fowler pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of manslaughter. In 2018, the US Department of the Interior granted Beyond 50 Years – a community non-profit group in Marion – a $ 500,000.00 grant to convert

520-550: The Civil Rights Movement . In 1958 Jimmy Wilson , a black man, was sentenced to death by a jury in Marion for stealing $ 1.95 from Estelle Barker. Wilson's case became an international cause célèbre , covered in newspapers worldwide and inspiring over 1000 letters per day to the office of governor Jim Folsom . Finally, after the Alabama Supreme Court upheld Wilson's conviction, at the urging of

560-524: The Congress of Racial Equality , Secretary of State John Foster Dulles wrote to Folsom explaining the damage that the case was doing to the international reputation of the United States and Folsom quickly granted Wilson clemency . In 1964, Marion was a center of civil rights protests in Alabama. During a Southern Christian Leadership Conference march on the evening of February 18, 1965, during

600-806: The Henry House , Marion Female Seminary , Phillips Memorial Auditorium , President's House at Marion Institute , Siloam Baptist Church are all individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places . It has one National Historic Landmark , Kenworthy Hall . The city also has several historic districts, including the Green Street Historic District , Judson College Historic District , Marion Courthouse Square Historic District , and West Marion Historic District . Historic district buildings of special significance include examples such as Reverie . According to

640-612: The Lincoln Normal School , was founded here in 1867. The associated Lincoln Normal University for Teachers moved to Montgomery and became Alabama State University . In 1889, Marion Military Institute was chartered by the State of Alabama and today is the oldest military junior college in the nation. In December 1857, Andrew Barry Moore (1807–1873) of Marion was elected the sixteenth governor of Alabama (1857–1861). He served one term, presiding over Alabama's secession from

680-417: The U.S. Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 10.7 square miles (28 km ), of which 10.6 square miles (27 km ) is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km ) (0.94%) is water. As of the 2020 United States census , there were 3,176 people, 1,055 households, and 407 families residing in the city. As of the census of 2010, there were 3,686 people, 1,184 households, and 819 families residing in

720-679: The "Alabama Resolutions" were passed. This was one of the factors that led to the 1845 formation of the Southern Baptist Convention in Augusta, Georgia. Judson College , a private, Baptist college for women, was founded in 1838 and closed July 31, 2021. Marion Military Institute was founded in 1887. Howard College, initially the location of the current Marion Military Institute, was founded in Marion in 1841, and moved to Birmingham in 1887, later becoming Samford University . A groundbreaking school for African Americans ,

760-622: The Union. Assisting in the war effort, Moore was imprisoned a short time after the war and in ill health returned to Marion, where he died eight years later. George Doherty Johnson (May 30, 1832 – December 8, 1910) served as mayor of Marion in 1856, state legislator from 1857 to 1858 and rose to the rank of brigadier general in the Confederate States Army in the American Civil War . Nicola Marschall (1829–1917),

800-884: The United States, followed by Towson , the county seat of Baltimore County, Maryland . Likewise, some county seats may not be incorporated in their own right, but are located within incorporated municipalities. For example, Cape May Court House, New Jersey , though unincorporated, is a section of Middle Township , an incorporated municipality. In some states, often those that were among the original Thirteen Colonies , county seats include or formerly included "Court House" as part of their name, such as Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia . Most counties have only one county seat. However, some counties in Alabama , Arkansas , Georgia , Iowa , Kentucky , Massachusetts , Mississippi , Missouri , New Hampshire , New York , and Vermont have two or more county seats, usually located on opposite sides of

840-421: The age of 18 living with them, 38.8% were married couples living together, 25.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.8% were non-families. 28.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.57 and the average family size was 3.17. In the city, the population was spread out, with 27.5% under

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880-463: The age of 18, 15.7% from 18 to 24, 21.5% from 25 to 44, 18.7% from 45 to 64, and 16.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 30.7 years. For every 100 females, there were 80.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 72.9 males. The median income for a household in the city was $ 24,142, and the median income for a family was $ 29,663. Males had a median income of $ 27,422 versus $ 20,240 for females. The per capita income for

920-424: The city was $ 11,934. About 28.4% of families and 33.4% of the population were below the poverty line , including 51.3% of those under age 18 and 15.1% of those age 65 or over. County seat In Canada , the provinces of Ontario , Quebec , New Brunswick , Prince Edward Island , and Nova Scotia have counties as an administrative division of government below the provincial level, and thus county seats. In

960-518: The city. The population density was 331.8 inhabitants per square mile (128.1/km ). There were 1,418 housing units at an average density of 134.0 per square mile (51.7/km ). The racial makeup of the city was 63.9% Black or African American , 32.9% White , 0.26% Native American , 0.09% Asian , 0.09% Pacific Islander , 0.26% from other races , and 0.60% from two or more races. 1.9% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. There were 1,184 households, out of which 31.4% had children under

1000-526: The counties after his unification, there were about 1,000. Under the Eastern Han dynasty , the number of counties increased to above 1,000. About 1400 existed when the Sui dynasty abolished the commandery level (郡 jùn), which was the level just above counties, and demoted some commanderies to counties. In Imperial China, the county was a significant administrative unit because it marked the lowest level of

1040-418: The county, especially if it is geographically large. A county seat is usually an incorporated municipality . The exceptions include the county seats of counties that have no incorporated municipalities within their borders, such as Arlington County, Virginia , where the county seat is the entire county. Ellicott City , the county seat of Howard County, Maryland , is the largest unincorporated county seat in

1080-420: The county. Examples include Harrison County, Mississippi , which has both Biloxi and Gulfport as county seats, and Hinds County, Mississippi , which has both Raymond and the state capital of Jackson . The practice of multiple county seat towns dates from the days when travel was difficult. There have been few efforts to eliminate the two-seat arrangement, since a county seat is a source of civic pride for

1120-572: The hamlet of Perry Ridge was deemed unsuitable. In 1829 it upgraded from a town to a city. The old City Hall (1832) is but one of many antebellum public buildings, churches, and homes in the city today. General Sam Houston , while between terms as 1st and 3rd president of the Republic of Texas , married Margaret Lea of Marion in the city in 1840. At the 1844 meeting of the Alabama Baptist State Convention in Marion,

1160-570: The height of the Selma Voting Rights Movement, Marion resident Jimmie Lee Jackson was shot and killed by Alabama State Trooper James Bonard Fowler . These events were depicted in the movie Selma , released in 2014. Jackson died on February 26 of an infection stemming from his wounds at nearby Good Samaritan Hospital in Selma . Martin Luther King Jr. preached a sermon at Jackson's funeral on March 3, and Jackson's death

1200-400: The historic Perry County Jailhouse into a voting rights museum. The historic jailhouse was the location of Reverend James Orange 's incarceration, which sparked the 1965 march that resulted in the death of Jimmie Lee Jackson. The jail is currently under renovation for the conversion into a museum, however a grand opening date has not yet been announced. In 2009, Marion made national news when

1240-424: The imperial bureaucratic structure; in other words, it was the lowest level that the government reached. Government below the county level was often undertaken through informal non-bureaucratic means, varying between dynasties. The head of a county was the magistrate , who oversaw both the day-to-day operations of the county as well as civil and criminal cases. The current number of counties mostly resembled that of

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1280-585: The increase of Han Chinese population in Taiwan, the number of counties also grew by time. By the end of Qing era, there were 11 counties in Taiwan. Protestant missionaries in China first romanized the term as hien . When Taiwan became a Japanese colony in 1895, the hierarchy of divisions also incorporated into the Japanese system in the period when Taiwan was under Japanese rule. By September 1945, Taiwan

1320-625: The independent city under an agreement, such as in Albemarle , or may in be enclaves of the county surrounded by the independent city, such as in Fairfax . Others, such as Prince William , have the courthouse in an enclave surrounded by the independent city and have the county government, the Board of Supervisors, in a different part of the county, far from the county seat. The following counties have their county seat in an independent city: Bedford

1360-758: The later years of the Qing dynasty . Changes of location and names of counties in Chinese history have been a major field of research in Chinese historical geography, especially from the 1960s to the 1980s. There are 1,355 counties in Mainland China out of a total of 2,851 county-level divisions. In Taiwan , the first counties were first established in 1661 by the Kingdom of Tungning . The later ruler Qing empire inherited this type of administrative divisions. With

1400-727: The provinces of Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia the term "shire town" is used in place of county seat. County seats in China are the administrative centers of the counties in the People's Republic of China . Xian have existed since the Warring States period and were set up nationwide by the Qin dynasty . The number of counties in China proper gradually increased from dynasty to dynasty. As Qin Shi Huang reorganized

1440-487: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about schools, colleges, or other educational institutions which are associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marion_High_School&oldid=1217147907 " Category : Educational institution disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

1480-777: The state's area, has no borough government or borough seat. One borough, the Lake and Peninsula Borough , has its borough seat located in another borough, namely King Salmon in Bristol Bay Borough . In Louisiana , which is divided into parishes rather than counties, county seats are referred to as "parish seats". In New England , counties have served mainly as dividing lines for the states' judicial systems. Rhode Island has no county level of government and thus no county seats, and Massachusetts has dissolved many but not all of its county governments. In Vermont , Massachusetts , and Maine county government consists only of

1520-416: The towns involved, along with providing employment opportunities. There are 33 counties with multiple county seats in 11 states: Alaska is divided into boroughs rather than counties; the county seat in these case is referred to as the "borough seat"; this includes six consolidated city-borough governments (one of which is styled as a "municipality"). The Unorganized Borough, Alaska , which covers 49% of

1560-624: The use of county seats in particular, will fully transition with the permission of the United States Census Bureau to a system of councils of government for the purposes of boundary definition and as county equivalents. Two counties in South Dakota , Oglala Lakota and Todd , have their county seat and government services centered in a neighboring county. Their county-level services are provided by Fall River County and Tripp County , respectively. In Virginia ,

1600-580: Was divided into 8 prefectures ( 州 and 廳 ), which remained after the Republic of China took over. There are 13 county seats in Taiwan, which function as county-administered cities , urban townships , or rural townships . In most of the United States , a county is an administrative or political subdivision of a state that consists of a geographic area with specific boundaries and usually some level of governmental authority. The city, town, or populated place that houses county government

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