MARION — The Marion Historical Commission has completed the third phase of it’s Historic Survey Update, announced the commission in a press release.

The group has been working since the fall of 2021 to update and expand the town’s “Historic Inventory” to make it more accessible, more usable and fully compliant with current state standards. 

The project was funded with 2021 Community Preservation funds and surveyed properties within several historic areas in Marion including the Old Landing Area, Old Depot Area, Burr Brothers/Old Landing Area, Rev. Oliver Cobb Area, Tremont Advent Campground Area, Marconi Power Station Area and numerous individual properties.

Most property owners have already received copies of the inventory forms for their properties.

For this project, the commission’s historic preservation consultant, Lynn Smiledge, re-examined the town’s existing survey forms from 1998. Maps and data sheets for each area were clarified and improved and individual Building forms were completed for a large number of properties in and near these areas.

The information will soon be accessible to the public on the Marion Historical Commission’s website, as well as in hard copy in repository at the Sippican Historical Society and the Elizabeth Taber Library.

“It is our hope that this information will make Marion residents increasingly aware and appreciative of the town’s very special historic and architectural significance,” wrote the commission in a press release. “The results will benefit individual property owners interested in the history of their homes as well as being a useful planning tool available to local boards to assure development decisions are in keeping with goals for preservation of the Town’s historic resources, in accordance with the Marion Master Plan.”

The next phase of survey work will begin in July and will consist of a survey of properties in the vicinity of Converse Road, Moorings Road, Delano Road and Point Road. This project will be funded with 2022 Community Preservation funds that were approved at the Marion Town Meeting.