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Notable buildings include the Sheffey Loom House (c. 1855), Odd Fellows Lodge (c. 1860), Look & Lincoln Wagon Factory warehouse (c. 1880), the Beaux-Arts style Marion County Courthouse (1905), Mt. Pleasant Methodist Church, Courtview Building (1890s), Marion High School (1907-1908), Marion Junior College (1912), the Overall Factory (c. 1920 ...
The house was completed in 1857, [5] for Abijah Thomas of Smyth County, [3] who was a property [3] and slave owner, and the owner of a textile plant. [5] The house and the property around it consisted of 400 acres, and was assessed at being worth $5,000 in 1857.
Marion College, a two-year Lutheran women's college, operated from 1873 to 1967. Marion Hall, constructed in 1968 and named in honor of Francis Marion, is a residence hall at Roanoke College. Marion is also home to Southwestern Virginia Mental Health Institute. In December 1864, during the Civil War, it was the site of the Battle of Marion.
The house was built "as a tavern or stagecoach inn along the Wilderness Road." This inn served travellers for some 22 years until 1864. [3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969. [1] In 2022, it was announced that the house is scheduled for demolition in order to build a truck stop. [4]
R. T. Greer and Company is a historic commercial building located at Marion, Smyth County, Virginia. It was built in 1916. R. T. Greer and Company was the Appalachian region's largest dealer in medicinal herbs. They remained in business until 1968. [3] It is occupied by the Herb House Trading Company, Inc.
In 2019, the council directed its Planning Board to recommend whether a 60,000-square-foot area of the property qualified under state law as “an area need of redevelopment.”
Lincoln Theatre is a historic theatre building located at Marion, Smyth County, Virginia. It was opened in 1929, and is a three-story theater located behind the Royal Oak Apartment House. Access to the theatre is through a broad arcade on the ground floor of the apartment house.
Christ Church was connected to Robert Carter's Corotoman mansion by way of a cedar-lined road, in order to emphasize the importance of the benefactor and his family. The church thrived until the disestablishment of the Anglican church in Virginia in 1786. This event, coupled with the Glebe Act of 1802, which authorized the state to seize church ...