Editing Marionville, Missouri (section)

==History==
Marionville was [[plat]]ted in 1854.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_lawrence.html |title=Lawrence County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived) |publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri |access-date=26 October 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624071704/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_lawrence.html |archive-date=24 June 2016 }}</ref> The city name has been erroneously attributed as namesake of [[Francis Marion]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Gannett|first=Henry|title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ|year=1905|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n199 200]}}</ref>  It is, in fact, named to honor early settler and founder, James Marion Moore. Other names were considered - Jamestown/Jamesville and Moorestown/Mooresville - but were already taken and Moore's middle name was then used. A post office called Marionville has been in operation since 1864.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MO&county=Lawrence | title=Post Offices| publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=26 October 2016}}</ref> On [[Tornado outbreak sequence of March 9–13, 2006|March 12, 2006]], a tornado hit the town, destroying houses and killing two people. It was rated as an F3.

The town's two most famous residents are a colony of [[white squirrels]] (inhabitants since the 1880s) and legendary tubist [[Harvey Phillips]].