1926 facts about Marion NY 14505

1926 Facts About Marion

Marion is a center for shipping red kidney beans, celery, cherries and apples, noted all over New York State.

It has its own water system.
It has two large cold storage plants.
It has 3 saw mills and a lumber yard.
It has two coal yards.
It owns and controls its own railroad.
It has a large vinegar plant.
It has a fire department and Firemen's building.
It has a magnificent fire apparatus.
It has a First National Bank.
Miles of fine cement sidewalk.
Electric lights since 1911.
It has a No. 1 school.
It has a first class picture show.
It has a beautiful and well kept cemetery.
It has five active churches.
It has four pipe organs in its churches.
It has three large produce warehouses.
It has a public library; and rest room combined.
It has city water installed in the homes.
It has two splendid markets.
It has a printing office.
It has a fine bakery.
It has two millinery shops.
It has a first class drug store.
It has numerous dry goods and grocery stores.
It has several garages and gas stations.
It has a public rest room.
It has a fine green house.
It has two hardware stores.
It has a lawyer's office.
It has two barber shops.
It has two shoe stores with rubber goods.
It has rural mail delivery.
It has a milk route.
It has a candy kitchen.
It has a Masonic Temple.
It has several musical instructors.
It has a newspaper published for 46 years, with only two editors in its history, an unprecedented record in the county.
It has two practicing physicians.
It has a large evaporator.
In has one of the most beautiful soldiers' monuments in New York state.
It has two undertakers.
Its Main Street is paved and curbed.
It has two blacksmith shops.
It has a trucking company.
It has several first class painters and decorators.
It has two noted ladder factories.
It has a Bottled Gas Corporation.
It has a large ice plant, with an extensive business.
It is located on a state road extending from Canandaigua directly north to Pultneyville, 30 miles.
It has a Grange Hall.
It has many beautiful homes and well kept lawns.
Its citizens have a high regard for education, which is evidenced by its large number of college graduates.
It has pure air and healthy surroundings.
It has a bank whose resources have increased 3500 percent since its organization 12 years ago.
It has more ares of muck land under cultivation than any other township in Wayne County.
It is one of the richest sections in the State, growing, it is claimed, more bulk farm produce than any other similar area in the state.
It has some of the best apple and cherry orchards in the county.
It is said to be the largest red kidney bean market in the state.
It has a large trucking business from Marion to Rochester.
It has families living on the same farms settled by their direct ancestors a hundred or more years ago, and these three families are neighbors - perhaps an unprecedented fact in this state.

(From The Marion Enterprise)

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