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Marcellus is a village in Marcellus Township in the northeast corner of Cass County in southwestern Michigan, close to the Indiana state line and part of the South Bend–Mishawaka metropolitan area.

The first settler in the Marcellus area, John Bair, arrived in October 1832, and by 1836 some 28 families had settled there.

When the township was organized on June 16, 1843, residents wanted to name it Cambria, but that name was already taken in Michigan, so their state representative proposed Marcellus, after the Roman emperor Flavius Marcellus.

The Peninsular Railroad reached Marcellus in the winter of 1870–71 and sparked a boom; after the depot was moved next to the business district in 1898, traffic grew until ten passenger trains a day stopped there by 1911.

Marcellus became an official village in 1879 with more than 500 residents, and by 1882 it supported two churches, a bank, two hotels, two stave factories, a steam sawmill, four doctors, two lawyers and a newspaper.

At its height Marcellus also had two theaters, a bowling alley and a pool hall.

The 2020 census counted 1,074 residents in the village; at the 2010 census Marcellus had 441 households.

The village covers well under one square mile of land, making it one of the more compact villages in Cass County.

Marcellus hosts the National Bluegill Frolic each year, a festival descended from a parade, fishing tournament and beauty pageant that once attracted thousands of visitors.

Village students are zoned to Marcellus Community Schools.