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History · Marion Township

12% of Marion Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: 1 old photo or paper and maps from 1934 on.

0on the National Register
12%homes built before 1940
1old photo or paper
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From Marion Township’s archive · credits on each photo

What stands out about Marion Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 1 old photo is in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Marion Township, and 2 old place names are still on the map.
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Start Marion Township’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Marion Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Date a photo1 archive item has no date. Guess the decade.+2Retake an old viewMarion Township (Saginaw), MI location: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Marion Springs
1892–1907
Fordney
1899–1903
18901960today
Hamlets and corners on the map
FordneyMarion Springs
Gone or out of use
Fordney Post Officepost officeMarion Springs Post Officepost office
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Marion Township
Marion TownshipSaint JohnsSaint Theresa

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

The story so far

Marion Township, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Marion Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Marion Township is a civil township of Saginaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 759 at the 2020 Census.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 923 to 759 (-18%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Marion Township, 1892 to 1934

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1892Post officeThe Marion Springs post office opens
  3. 1899Post officeThe Fordney post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1903Post officeThe Fordney post office closes
  6. 1907Post officeThe Marion Springs post office closes
  7. 1934On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Marion Township, decade by decade

Date unknown1 to date
Marion Township (Saginaw), MI locationDate?Marion Township (Saginaw), MI location
Today1 recent
St Johns Lutheran Church2011St Johns Lutheran Church
On the map

Marion Township on the map, 1934 to 1973

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Marion Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Marion Township on the 1934 USGS mapMarion Township on the 1973 USGS map1934Merrill sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Marion Township.

Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Marion Township (Saginaw), MI location
Retake this viewMarion Township (Saginaw), MI location

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Marion Township’s page.

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Famous people

Famous people close to Marion Township

Nobody well known was born in Marion Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Andrew WylieAmerican football player · b. 1994
Chris PatrickAmerican football player · b. 1984
James M. SwiftAmerican lawyer · b. 1873
Ted PetoskeyAmerican football, basketball, baseball player … · b. 1911
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E. J. PotterAmerican dragstrip exponent · b. 1941
Frank OberlinAmerican baseball player · b. 1876
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Brant TownshipIts storyC+Chapin TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townHamilton TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLakefield TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Marion Township’s history

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What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

Where this page comes from

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 (2), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) 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.