Monday, February 28, 2022

Marion High School Agriculture Laboratory - 1920

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School year 1920.  Marion High School is one of the few High Schools in the state that offers a full four year course in agriculture.  The w...
Friday, February 18, 2022

A Visit To County Schools in 1879

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For some very early history of our county schools, lets visit around with County School Commissioner Rev. James F. Price.  He shares his rep...
Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Motorcycle Races of Yesteryear

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 From Crittenden Press archives comes this little interesting tidbit about Motorcycle Races being held here.   August 1948 - The people of M...
Thursday, February 3, 2022

Rotary Dialing Replaces Bell Operators

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Some fun information from The Crittenden Press recalls the big change in phone usage in 1958. Feb. 7, 1958 -Marion's Dial Numbers to H...
Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Pilot Knob Cemetery

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 Pilot's Knob Cemetery is a peaceful, normal rural family cemetery, but somewhere over the years an untrue and terrible grave myth someh...
Thursday, January 20, 2022

The Old Mineral Display Case by the Court House

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   This piece of past Crittenden County History was located on the side of the old clerk's office that was located next to the Court Hou...
Tuesday, January 11, 2022

Some Noted Early Marion Business Men of 1894

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 In August of 1894, The Crittenden Press published a three-part illustrated edition of the paper.  In the papers were all kinds of informati...