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What do you consider the key accomplishment(s) of your county’s bicentennial celebration?
What Legacy Project do you most like to tell people about, and why?
Describe a highlight or most memorable moment related to your county's bicentennial celebration.
How/where are you preserving information and artifacts related to your county's celebration?
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During the early years of European-American settlement and before the removal of the Potawatomi people in 1838, Marshall County was named for U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall, who died in 1835.
Marshall County is home to Culver Academies
Located in Culver, IN, Henry Harrison Culver first founded Culver Military Academy in 1894 “for the purpose of thoroughly preparing young men for the best colleges, scientific schools and businesses of America.”
Coeducational since 1971, Culver Girls Academy was founded for the purpose of encouraging young women to attain the highest degree of self-development.The red brick buildings on the New England-esque, 1800-acre campus contain military touches like turrets and parapets and are located on the shore of beautiful Lake Maxinkuckee.
The chapel houses the second-largest pipe organ and clarion in the United States. Perhaps the academy’s biggest source of pride is its Black Horse Troop; the largest remaining mounted cavalry unit in the United States. The Troop has ridden in 13 presidential inaugural parades, starting with President Woodrow Wilson’s in 1913 through President George W. Bush’s in 2001.
The Trail of Death starts at the Menominee statue south of Plymouth. Chief Menominee and his band of Potawatomi Indians were forced to move from Indiana to Kansas in 1838 and many died. On September 4, 1909 the state of Indiana erected the Chief Menominee Statue in remembrance of the horror the Indians were put through and a memorial to the Potawatomi Indians. Located on Peach RD, Plymouth.
County Seat: Plymouth
Year Organized: 1835
Square Miles: 443.63