1961 Map of Marion

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Marion serves as a major industrial and rail hub along the winding Mississinewa River in this early 1960s survey. The city's landscape is defined by its extensive educational and civic infrastructure, from Marion College and the General Hospital to a dense network of local schools like McCulloch School and Bennett School. A complex web of transit lines convergence here, including the Pennsylvania and Chicago and St Louis RR, which supported the city's manufacturing core and the Goodman Yards. Outside the urban center, the map reveals a transition to the agricultural surroundings of Grant County, where small settlements such as Michaelsville and Roseburg sit amidst a grid of rural routes like the Slocum Trail. Notable for genealogists, the survey documents several prominent burial grounds, including the Grant Memorial Park and the large IOOF Cemetery.