Marion County was formed from the southern portion of Cass County on February 8, 1860. Jefferson, the county seat, founded in the early 1840s, rapidly developed a booming river trade with New Orleans, due to a large natural log-jam that formed a series of navigable lakes and bayous in the river valleys of Marion County. Jefferson quickly became the favored inland Texas port for the deposit and transport of North Texas agricultural produce. Thus, Marion County became the commercial conduit for frontier Texas and did not relinquish this position until the establishment of transcontinental rail links that bypassed its wharves in the mid-1870s.

Marion county was named for Francis Marion, the legendary "Swamp Fox."

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