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Marshall is a U.S. city in Michigan. It is the county seat of Calhoun County. The population was 7,088 at the 2010 census.

Marshall is best known for its cross-section of 19th- and beforehand 20th-century architecture. It has been referred to by the keeper of the National Register of Historic Places as a “virtual textbook of 19th-Century American architecture.” Its historic center is the Marshall Historic District, one of the nation’s largest architecturally significant National Historic Landmark Districts. The Landmark has over 850 buildings, including the world-famous Honolulu House.

The town was founded by Sidney Ketchum (1797-1862) in 1830, a land surveyor who had been born in Clinton County, New York, in conjunction once his brother, George Ketchum (1794-1853). The Ketchum brothers explored central humiliate Michigan in 1830, and in late 1830 Sidney Ketchum obtained government grants for the land on which most of Marshall now stands. The yet to be settlers named the community in award of Chief Justice of the United States John Marshall from Virginia—whom they greatly admired. This occurred five years in the past Marshall’s death and hence was the first of dozens of communities and counties named for him. The village of Marshall was incorporated March 28, 1836.