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	{{Infobox_nrhp \| name =Marion Historic District
	\| nrhp_type = hd
	\| image = Marion Lester Beecher House.jpg
	\| caption = Lester Beecher House (1166 Marion)
	\| 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>
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	The '''Marion Historic District''' is a ] in the ] of ] in ]. The district also includes two houses on the ] side of the ] between Southington and the ] of Cheshire in ].<ref name="nrhpinv3"/> The historic district 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 (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}}

	==Historic district designation==

	The Marion Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 21, 1988 as a result of a nomination submitted by the ] in July 1988.<ref name="nrhpinv3"/> The nomination described the district as being architecturally significant "as a collection of well-preserved buildings dating from the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries which together reflect the historical development of the Marion community of Southington." Contributing properties in the district were described as representing three distinct periods on Marion's history: "early agricultural development" from about 1770 to 1842, "19th-century industrial activity and community growth" from 1842 to 1900, and "early suburban growth" from 1914 to 1938.<ref name="nrhpinv3"/>

	The Marion Historic District does not have local historic district designation. The town of Southington has not established local historic districts<ref>Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation, Local Historic Districts List, accessed October 31, 2010</ref> and the portion of the district that is located in the town of Cheshire is not included in either of that town's two local historic districts.<ref>http://www.cheshirect.org/historic/</ref><ref>http://www.cheshirehistory.org/hist_dist_comm/hdsc_brochure.htm</ref>

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

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