Historical Markers and War Memorials in Marshall, North Carolina
Marshall is the county seat for Madison County
Marshall is in Madison County
Madison County(30) ► ADJACENT TO MADISON COUNTY Buncombe County(152) ► Haywood County(62) ► Yancey County(12) ► Cocke County, Tennessee(17) ► Greene County, Tennessee(88) ► Unicoi County, Tennessee(8) ►
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"Completed in 1827 from Saluda Gap to Buncombe County Court House and along the French Broad River by way of Barnard's and Warm Springs to Tennessee line. Served as the major trade route through mountains of western North Carolina until 1882." — — Map (db m23690) HM
Colonel Edward F. Rector, a native of Madison County, NC, proudly served our country in World War II as a member of the Flying Tigers. — — Map (db m75567) WM
Stock Stand owned by Vance, father of Governor Zebulon B. Vance, stood a few yard to the east. The Stand or Inn was also the home of the Vance family for a few years. In 1853 Zebulon Vance gave land as a site for Marshall as the county seat. — — Map (db m23692) HM
Early sessions of Madison County court were held in a log house on this site between 1851 and 1859. Bell Institute, a school operated by the Presbyterian Church USA, served the area. The school house and a dormitory stood a few yards west. — — Map (db m187601) HM
On May 13, 1861, voters gathered here in Marshall, the Madison County seat, to elect a delegate for the Secession Convention to be held in Raleigh. The citizens were divided in their loyalties. Sheriff Ransom P. Merrill and others were later . . . — — Map (db m75592) HM
This property
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
Marshall High School
1926 — — Map (db m187808) HM
