Map of the Plan of Marion Georgia 1817

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Map of the Town of Marion 1817 Note
     The street passing through the square from NE to SE called Washington Street is 36 feet wide
     The Street on the S.W., called Jefferson Street, and that on the NE called Maddison (sic) Street. The same course are-66 feet wide.
    The street crossing the above at right angle to wit the street through the square called Jackson Street.
    That to the NW called Monroe Street and that to the S. E. called Early Street and that street near the spring call Whiter (?) Street and The lots from 1 to 36 include are 46 feet wide 210 by 105 feet & contain half an acre each.

The above is a correct representation of the Town of Marion in the County of Twiggs laid out agreeably to and Act of the General Assembly passed the 8th Dec 1810 and according to a plan propsed by the Commissioners of the courthouse & jail of said county. Certified by me this 22 June 1817
(s)Francis Spann
Cty. Sur.

Town of Marion
County seat 1810-1868
Incorporated 1816. Named after Revolutionary General Francis Marion

According to an act of the General Assembly of Georgia passed Dec. 8, 1810 the public buildings and courthouse for the newly formed Twiggs County was " to be erected at or near Joiner's Spring above Savage's Creek, on Lot No. 73, in the 25th district, late Wilkinson, now Twiggs county." (See map above.) " John Harden, Jacob Ricks, William Davis, Lovet B. Smith and James M'Cormick" were appointed "Commissioners of the Court-House and Jail of the said county of Twiggs, and they or a majority of them are hereby authorised to purchase as a site for the public buildings not less than 75 nor more than 200 acres of the said lot No. 73 above described; and they or a majority of them are hereby authorised to contract for and superintend the building of the court-house and jail."

Mrs J. L. Walker of Waycross wrote in the Atlanta Constitution July 17, 1910" "The first superior court held in Twiggs county was in November, 1811 at Marion, then the county seat. The first grand jurors were Francis Powell, William Grimes, N. Bagley, Robins Andrews, A. Wood, William Cloud, William Fort, John Matthews, John Wilkinson, John Young, Thomas C. Hedleberg, Arthur Fort, Jr., B. Joiner, John Hawthorn, S. Barberee, Ashley Wood, T. Pearce, S. Dick, William Carr, John Evans.
        Old Marion is about midway between Bullard's Station, on the southern and Jeffersonville, and is about six miles between each. It is about one hundred years old, and was for many years the county seat of Twiggs. At one time it had a population of from eight hundred to one thousand, and it was at that time larger than Macon. The original survey of the Central railway from Savannah was to that point instead of Macon, but the people did not want their chickens and stock killed by the trains, and did not look with favourable eyes on the advent of the steam carriage. Marion boasted of a bank, postoffice, and several good business houses.
         The old families who lived and were alive there were the Wimberleys, Arthur Fort, William Crocker, Tarvers, Faulks, Solomons, Griffins, Joneses, Richardsons, and others. After the war between the states the courthouse was moved to Jeffersonville and the town of Marion went down. Some of the old houses were taken down and moved to Jeffersonville, and a friend who furnished me the information about Marion said that he traveled that circuit in 1877-79, and that it was about all gone, with only a family or two living there. It is now only a cross-roads with one Negro family. By Mrs. J. L. Walker of Waycross"
     In 1811 the town Commissioners were Robert Cummings, James Spann, Thomas W. Harriss, Martin Kolb and Henry Loyless, esquires;. John Fleming was appointed Notary Public for the town in 1815. In 1816 the commissioners were: Henry M. Terrell, John Fleming, Martin Pitts, Lemuel P. Hargrove and Moses Fort. In 1837 Alan Edwards was appointed postmaster. In 1838 Peyton Reynolds was appointed postmaster. In 1849 an act was passed in the General Assembly to move the town of Marion to the lands formerly owned by Henry Solomon. The citizens voted not to move the town. Ira Peck was a postmaster there 1859. In 1867 the majority of the citizens voted to move the courthouse and public buildings to Jeffersonville. Current Map