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	{{Infobox_nrhp \| name =Marion Historic District
	\| nrhp_type = hd
	\| image = Marion Lester Beecher House.jpg
	\| caption = Lester Beecher House
	\| location= Along Marion Ave. and the Meriden-Waterbury Turnpike, ] (]) and ] (]), ]
	\| lat_degrees = 41
	\| lat_minutes = 33
	\| lat_seconds = 50
	\| lat_direction = N
	\| long_degrees = 72
	\| long_minutes = 55
	\| long_seconds = 29
	\| long_direction = W
	\| locmapin = Connecticut
	\| area =
	\| architect= Multiple
	\| architecture= ], ], ]
	\| added = December 21, 1988
	\| governing_body = Local
	\| refnum=88001423<ref name="nris">{{cite web\|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/\|title=National Register Information System\|date=2009-03-13\|work=National Register of Historic Places\|publisher=National Park Service}}</ref>
	}}
	The '''Marion Historic District''' is a ] in the ] of ] in ] and in the town of ] in ].<ref>Two of the fifty-seven listed properties are located just across the town line in ]</ref> It was listed on the ] in 1988. Architectural styles in the district include ], ] and ].<ref name=nris/>

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	It includes the ] (also known as Asa Barnes Tavern) and the ] style ], which are separately listed on the National Register.<ref name=nris/>

	==Rochambeau visit==
	Marion is the site of an encampment by the French general, ] and his troops during the ]. In June 1781, the French troops under Rochambeau's command left ] and marched 13 miles to their eighth camp through Connecticut, near Asa Barnes's Tavern in the Marion section of Southington. They camped there for four days. Rochambeau and his officers took shelter in the tavern, and the troops set up camp on a hill on the other side of the road. The area of the encampment has since become known as French Hill, and a marker on the east side of Marion Avenue commemorates the French campsite. According to Rev. Timlow's ''Sketches of Southington'' (1875),
	"Landlord Barnes gave a ball at his tavern, at which a large number of the young women of the vicinity were
	]present; and they esteemed it something of an honor to have had a 'cotillion' with the polite foreigner." The celebrations—infused with spirits provided by Landlord Barnes—spanned the four nights they were in Southington. Rochambeau revisited Barnes's Tavern again on the return march on October 27, 1782. According to Timlow's ''Ecclesiastical and Other Sketches of Southington, Conn.'', coins, buttons and other things were picked up in the vicinity many years after the two encampments. The Barnes Tavern is now a private residence very near the camp site at 1089 Marion Avenue.<ref>L.C. Kopec, ''Southington'', (Arcadia, 2007)</ref><ref>F.S. Marcy Crofut, ''Guide to the history and the historic sites of Connecticut'', (Yale University Press, 1937)</ref><ref>H.R. Timlow, '''', (1875)</ref>

	==Significant properties==
	The house at 1166 Marion Avenue (is this the Lester Beecher House?) has been termed a ] house for its irregular massing and 3 story tower.<ref name="nrhpinv3">{{cite web\|url=http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Text/88001423.pdf \|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Marion Historic District \|date=January 26, 1988 \|author=Janice L. Elliott, David F. Ransom, and John Herzan \|publisher=National Park Service}} and </ref>{{rp\|5-6}}

	==See also==
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	==References==
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	{{National Register of Historic Places}}

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