Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Marshall, MI

Marshall is a city in and the county seat of Calhoun County, Michigan.

Marshall was founded in 1830 by land surveyor Sidney Ketchum together with his brother George Ketchum.

Settlers named the town for U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall five years before his death, making it the first of dozens of American communities and counties named for him.

Marshall was incorporated as a village on March 28, 1836, and as a city in 1849.

Marshall was once a frontrunner to become Michigan's state capital and even built a Governor's Mansion, but it lost out to Lansing.

The Marshall Historic District is one of the nation's largest architecturally significant National Historic Landmark Districts, with more than 850 buildings including the Honolulu House, and has been called a virtual textbook of 19th-century American architecture.

In the 1847 Crosswhite Affair, Marshall residents surrounded slave catchers to protect escaped slave Adam Crosswhite and his family, a case that helped push Congress to pass the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

Marshall residents Rev. John D. Pierce and Isaac E. Crary designed Michigan's public school system; Pierce became the nation's first state superintendent of public instruction, and their framework became a foundation for the Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862.

The first railroad labor union in the United States, the Brotherhood of the Footboard (later the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen), was formed in Marshall in 1863, when the town was nicknamed Chicken Pie City.

Marshall had a population of 6,822 people at the 2020 census, spread across 3,072 households and 3,363 housing units.