A group against a CVS pharmacy on the corner of Route 6 and Front Street has collected double the number of signatures originally wanted for a petition requesting developers to build elsewhere.

Calling themselves “The Citizens Committee to Oppose CVS at the Gateway to Marion,” the group of 20 launched the online petition drive with a goal of getting 1,000 signatures.

As of Tuesday, 2,189 people had signed the petition.

“While I cherish the charm and historic small town atmosphere of Marion, I am not against all commerce and development as long as it doesn’t compromise those aspects of the town that provide that atmosphere,” Barbara Hillard of Marion, wrote on the petition’s website. “The CVS would detract from it and is completely unnecessary. Most residents would boycott the business if it went through as planned.”

Several others chimed in with comments and support for the citizens committee’s efforts.

Committee member Tinker Saltonstall said the group revised its goal following the petition’s success. The committee now hopes to collect 2,500 signatures.

“The idea is to voice our opposition to this site,” Saltonstall said. “We are not authorized to make any decisions. We are just a citizens action committee trying to offer the Planning Board support to act in the best interests of citizens in the town.”

The petition is available to sign at Change.org. It declares: “Development of a generic ‘big box’ retailer such as CVS would be detrimental to the character of our beloved committee, and contrary to the intent of the town’s bylaws.”

Saltonstall said the group also collected signatures with pen and paper at key points throughout town before Christmas and New Year’s.

“We had a massive clipboard campaign,” she said. “We found that people from out of town who came to visit friends and family offered their support as well.”

Overall, committee members want developers to rethink the proposed location of the CVS, which would be built near the historic Captain Hadley House.

In September, Mark Investments LLC representatives unveiled plans to construct a 14,600-square-foot pharmacy and store with drive-thru at the intersection. To accommodate the store, the Captain Hadley House would be moved to an adjacent lot.

Following meetings with the Planning Board and the Conservation Commission, those plans were scaled down and revised to keep the Captain Hadley House at its current location.

The new blueprints were shown at a December Planning Board meeting during an informal presentation held in the Music Hall.

At the meeting’s end, Chair Stephen Kokkins said the plans were still too large.

“Unless the applicant reconsiders the size there doesn’t seem to be very much value in continuing these discussions,” Kokkins said at the time.