Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
9 places in town are on the National Register. Below: 3 old photos and papers from 1880 on.
Marshall Township dates its founding to 1835 (Wikidata and Wikipedia’s history agree). Its post office opened in 1837.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Marshall Township’s history is told.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
In the archive1940 Census Enumeration District Maps - Illinois - Clark County - Marshall - ED 12-9A, ED…
In the archiveHistoric National Road - DowntownFrom Wikipedia’s history of Marshall Township.
Marshall was officially organized by William B. Archer in 1835, eight years after the National Road entered the community. The city was named after John Marshall, chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Marshall was incorporated on May 14, 1873.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
2 decades in the archive, from the 1880s to the 1990s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
2015Statue of Lincoln, Marshall, IL, US (03)
2015Statue of Lincoln, Marshall, IL, US (02)
2015Old Stone Arch Bridge, National Road
2011Ohio Oil offices in
2011Marshall post office, 62441
2011Manly-McCann House
2011Henry and Rebecca Baggs Log Cabin
2011First Methodist Church of
2011First Congregational Church inNo then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Marshall Township’s page.
Retake this view · +15Old hamlets and crossroads still carry their names on the map.
Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 1835, according to Wikidata and Wikipedia’s history of the town. Marshall Township’s post office opened in 1837.
9 listings: 2 structures. 49 historic buildings in all.
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From Wikimedia Commons (12), the National Register of Historic Places (2), Wikipedia and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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