Marshall Public Library (Marshall, IL)

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Marshall Public Library was founded in 1916 and has a proud history of serving our community. We are honored to be the go-to place for resources for the history of our community including a robust genealogy collection, thousands of historic photographs, and a one-of-a-kind oral history collection. Many of our collections can be found on the Illinois Digital Archive at idaillinois.org This collection is a work in progress. Photo titles, details, and dates will be updated as staff time allows. If you have any questions, please email Head Librarian Jamie Poorman at jpoorman@marshallplib.com

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South School

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  • Jamie Poorman said:
    South Side School – Early in Marshall’s history school classes were taught in several small school buildings in town including the King School in the southwest part of Marshall and the Little Brick School in the south east section. These schools proved inadequate for the growing population, and in 1887 a two story building with four classrooms was erected in the south part of town on the block between Walnut and Elm and S. 6th and 8th Streets. This school served students in grades 1 through 8 living south of Archer Avenue in Marshall. Four more rooms were added on the east side of the school by Joe Forbeck in 1908. More room was needed, and in 1956 Walnut Street was closed between 6th Street, Michigan Avenue, and 8th Street, and a one story addition containing a cafeteria/gymnasium and 13 classrooms was erected on the north side of the old building with a connecting hallway. In 1977 the old part of the South Side School building was torn down. Since then other additions and many improvements have been made to the South School building which now houses all of Marshall’s Kindergarten through 2nd grade classes.
    Current school address is 805 S. 6th St.

Marshall Memories, Volume 2 by Joann Strange (33)

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  • Marshall Public Library (Marshall, IL) said:
    This photo, from an album donated by Joann Brosman Strange, shows the Stone Arch Bridge on West Archer in1985.
    The bridge was constructed in 1837 along the National Road under the supervision of Alexander McGregor. No mortar was used in the construction, and this is one of the last stone arch bridges from that road still in use.
    From the "Tour of Historic Marshall, Illinois" booklet - "Archer Avenue is part of the original Cumberland Road, later known as National Road. The road was commissioned in 1806 to go from Cumberland, Maryland to the Mississippi River. The completion of the road through Clark County in the early 1930s drew many settlers to the area and was a contributing factor in the move of the Clark County seat from Darwin to Marshall in 1838. The road was paved with bricks in the 1920s and in 1926 it became a part of US Hwy 40 which stretched from coast to coast."

Class of 1983 Reunion

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  • mbnegri said:
    Class of 1983
  • Marshall Public Library (Marshall, IL) said:
    mbnegri Thank you!

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