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Marshall County, Indiana

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
35historic places
—earliest paper
1835formed
46,095pop. 2020
22cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 35 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1978. Most listings are in or near Plymouth, Bourbon, Bremen.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Indiana is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Marshall titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

16 of 35 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

35 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Argos Downtown Historic DistrictArgosDistrict2001
Argos Izaak Walton League Historic DistrictArgosBuilding2011
Argos Northside Historic District,ArgosDistrict2017
Arnold, Isaac and Ruth, HouseBourbonBuilding2018
Boggs, Lewis and Sarah, HouseArgosBuilding2012
Bourbon Commercial Historic DistrictBourbonDistrict2017
Bourbon Residential Historic DistrictBourbonDistrict2017
Bremen Commercial Historic DistrictBremenDistrict2017
Bremen Residential Historic DistrictBremenDistrict2017
Bremen Water TowerBremenStructure2013
Center Street Stone & Concrete Arch BridgeBremenStructure2026
Chief Menominee Memorial SitePlymouthBuilding2010
Culver Commercial Historic DistrictCulverBuilding1996
Dietrich-Bowen HouseBremenBuilding1978
East Laporte Street FootbridgePlymouthSite1981
East Shore Historic DistrictCulverDistrict1998
Erwin HouseBourbonBuilding2016
Forest Place Historic DistrictCulverDistrict2000
Gaskill-Erwin FarmBourbonBuilding2015
Heminger Travel LodgePlymouthBuilding2001
Hoham-Klinghammer-Weckerle House and Brewery SitePlymouthBuilding2012
Jacoby Church and CemeteryPlymouthBuilding2007
Marshall County Court HousePlymouthBuilding1983
Marshall County InfirmaryPlymouthBuilding2000
Norris Farm-Maxinkuckee OrchardCulverDistrict2016
Plymouth Downtown Historic DistrictPlymouthDistrict1998
Plymouth Downtown Historic DistrictPlymouthDistrict1998
Plymouth Downtown Historic District (Boundary Increase)PlymouthDistrict2017
Plymouth Fire StationPlymouthBuilding1981
Plymouth Northside Historic DistrictPlymouthDistrict2013
Plymouth Southside Historic DistrictPlymouthDistrict2013
Polk Township District No. 2 SchoolWalkertonBuilding2013
Ramsay-Fox Round Barn and FarmPlymouthBuilding2012
Sults-Quivey-Hartman Polygonal Barn and FarmPlymouthDistrict2019
Tippecanoe Twp. District No. 3 Schoolhouse and CemeteryTippecanoeBuilding2008

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Marshall was formed in 1835 (1835-02-07) from St.

MARSHALL created from ST. JOSEPH and from Non-County Area 12 attached to CASS, Non-County Area 13 attached to ELKHART, and Non-County Area 14 attached to ST. JOSEPH.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Marshall County population from 1840 to 2020 (Census historical series).

47k24k1,6511840188019201930196020002020
18401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
1,65112,72223,41425,11923,74425,93529,46832,44339,15545,12846,095

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

22 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 22 of 22 listed
NameLatLon
Barber Cemetery41.44413-86.42092
Burr Oak Cemetery41.26574-86.43453
Cromley Cemetery41.1788-86.44251
Donaldson Cemetery41.36222-86.43019
Fairmount Cemetery41.4104-86.31353
Maple Grove Cemetery41.24368-86.23284
Masonic Cemetery41.20615-86.42195
McElrath Cemetery41.27804-86.3768
McGrew Cemetery41.18688-86.17228
Mount Carmel Cemetery41.33665-86.4501
Mount Zion Cemetery41.47671-86.30195
Nighthart Cemetery41.37713-86.25151
Oak Hill Cemetery41.32856-86.30582
Parks Memorial Cemetery41.28931-86.11913
Saint Michaels Cemetery41.34782-86.32806
Salem Cemetery41.29552-86.20197
Sandridge Cemetery41.36227-86.10222
Tabor Cemetery41.30217-86.28069
Tippecanoe Cemetery41.22059-86.11472
Tyner Cemetery41.41173-86.3972
Washington Cemetery41.19042-86.38145
Zion Cemetery41.189-86.45351

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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