MARION
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MARION , a city and the county-seat of Marion county, Ohio , U.S.A., 44 M. N. by W. of Columbus . Pop. (1900), 11,862, including 782 foreign-born and 112 negroes; (1910), 18,232. Marion is served by the Pennsylvania , the Erie , the Cleveland , Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis, and the Hocking Valley railways, and by interurban electric railway to Columbus . It is the trade centre of a rich farming district . Limestone is abundant, and the city has various manufactures, including lime, foundry and machine -shop products, agricultural implements, planing-mill products, engines, steam shovels, dredges, pianos and silks. In 1905 the value of factory products was $3,227,712, being 33.1% greater than in 1900. Marion was laid out in 1821, and was chartered as a city in 1890.
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