Army forces commanded by General William T. By 1860, Lauderdale County's enslaved population had more than doubled-a fact that fed support for secessionism after the election of Abraham Lincoln. During the 1850s, land values in Lauderdale County increased by 176 percent, which allowed many non-slaveholding whites to purchase slaves to grow cotton, build roads, and clear the surrounding forests for cultivation. In 1850, Congress donated land to Alabama and Mississippi in order to build the Mobile & Ohio Railroad, which bypassed Marion and constructed a station two miles to the southwest in a village called McLemore's Old Field (now the city of Meridian). It also had at least one newspaper, the Lauderdale Republican.
In 1840, it had a drugstore, two blacksmith shops, six dry goods stores, and two academies (one for girls and another for boys). Prior to the war, Marion was a prosperous town inhabited by numerous planters and enslaved African Americans. Marion was Lauderdale County's seat from its founding to Reconstruction.
The town was named for Francis Marion, a military leader known as the "Swamp Fox". The population of Marion was 1,479 at the 2010 census. It is a northeastern suburb of Meridian, the county seat. Marion is a town in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, United States.
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