The well on the north-east corner of the square has been nicely curbed in and the water therefore made accessible for use. It there was a good well on each of the other three corners of the square the very efficient fire department would have a beneficiary and there would not be such a scarcity of water during the dry summer months.
(Extracted from the Egyptian Press and compiled by Harry Boyd, posted at http://www.marionfire.us/ )
Our people, and especially those on the east side of the square, were given a genuine scare on last Monday morning. At about three o’clock the family of Mr. Thomas Perrigan, who occupy rooms in W.P. Goodall’s building, were aroused from their slumbers by the presence of smoke in their apartments. They were not long to discovering that the house was ablaze in the closet under the steps in the front part of the building. Continue reading
The Bainbridge family has clearly been resident in the Marion area from before the turn of the century. They were early merchants and landowners. Continue reading
Note the presence of a small building in the corner where the Orpheum Theater would later be built in 1922.
(Photos courtesy of the Williamson County Historical Society)