A family-focused creative place of discovery, Explore-It-Torium Children’s Museum of Marion provides hands-on learning for children ages 2 through 12. “We want to thank the community for getting us through the COVID pandemic with their generous donations, which also provided funding to improve, update and change our exhibits so that guests always have a new […]
Places
Marion Tech Downtown Location to Include MarionMade!
Marion Technical College is ending 2020 with an exciting announcement – opening its new location in downtown Marion at 107 North Main Street. This will provide dedicated space for MarionMade!, workforce solutions training, a small business incubator for entrepreneurs, and much more. “Marion Tech is thrilled for the new space and new ways to serve […]
The Henry True Home
Sitting on the southwest corner of Church and State Streets for one hundred and seventy-two years is the Henry True Home. This lovely Gothic Revival style brick home with its steeply-pitched roof, decorative gable, pretty flower borders, and white picketed fence adds a sense of charm to the edge of Marion’s downtown. This is just […]
Marion’s Historic Women’s Club Home
Story updated on October 14, 2020 What once was a family home, built in 1903, stands today as the Historic Women’s Club Home. This Colonial Revival style home is at 1126 E. Center Street in Marion and was once the home of industrialist Shauk Barlow and his wife Elizabeth. Shauk, the president of the Huber […]
Marion Municipal Airport
If you haven’t visited the Marion Municipal Airport, it is a great time to discover or revisit this gem in our community. On September 1, the airport will be celebrating the 70th anniversary of the official public opening in 1950. But the planning of the original over six hundred acres airport started back in 1943. […]
Terradise Nature Center- Just a Little Slice of Paradise in Marion County
Located just south of Caledonia, along the Olentangy River, is one of Marion County’s rich heritage and natural treasures- Terradise Nature Center. It is there to educate its visitors about the conservation of our world while discovering and researching more about the wildlife of the area, the Olentangy River, and associated wetlands and forests. Their […]
