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Marion
Alabama, United States
Marion, city, seat (1822) of Perry county, west-central Alabama, U.S. It is situated near the Cahaba River, about midway between Tuscaloosa (northwest) and Montgomery (southeast). Settled in 1817, it was known as Muckle’s Ridge until it was renamed to honour Francis Marion, a soldier in the American Revolution who was known as the Swamp Fox. A resolution adopted by Alabama Baptists meeting in Marion in November 1844 was an early step in the controversy over slavery that led to the separation of Baptists into Northern and Southern factions the following year. Light industry (including poultry processing and the manufacture of ...(100 of 147 words)