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In October, 1835, Marshall was platted on parts of sections 13 and 24 in town 11 north, range 12 west, by J. Duncan and W. B. Archer.
The ground selected was high and covered by a forest growth which offered the least obstacles to making it habitable, but it had the disadvantage, owing to the character of the soil, of being wet and as forbidding in appearance as its most determined opponents could wish.
It was situated considerably east of the geographical center of the county as well, but the contest was likely to be decided more by the strength of the battalions than the justice of the cause and these matters proved of minor consideration.
A bill was passed by the Legislature in January, 1836, to change the county seat from
Darwin to some point on the
National Road nearer the center of the county,
and appointed Gen. Wm F. Thornton, Wm. Prentiss, and John Hendrix of Shelby County, and Charles Emerson and Wm. Reddick
of Macon County, as commissioners to fix upon the site.1
**To be continued**
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