Marshall, Texas
small city and county seat of Harrison County, Texas, United States
Marshall is a city in the U.S. state of Texas. It is the county seat of Harrison County and a cultural and educational center of the Ark-La-Tex region. As of the 2020 census, Marshall had a population of 23,392. The population of the Greater Marshall area, comprising all of Harrison County, was 66,726 in 2018.
Marshall and Harrison County were important political and production areas of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. This area of Texas was developed for cotton plantations. Planters brought slaves with them from other regions or bought them in the domestic slave trade. The county had the highest number of slaves in the state, and East Texas had a higher proportion of slaves than other regions of the state. The wealth of the county and city depended on slave labor and the cotton market.
From the late 19th century to the mid-20th century, Marshall developed as a center of the Texas and Pacific Railway.
The public source identifies “Marshall, Texas” as small city and county seat of Harrison County, Texas, United States. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Marshall, Texas and small.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q52996. VIAF identifies the subject as 151151034. The Library of Congress control number is n79062925. Authority coordinates are 32.550, -94.500. 3 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020 and 2018.
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