Author: Spooks

Crystal Lake: Marion’s Lost Amusement Park

Preface Many people in Marion don’t know that, from the mid 1920s to the mid 1950s, an area north of town was the location of an amusement park, Crystal Lake. In 2019, Randy Winland published an excellent history of the park (available at the Marion County Historical Society), and I have used it extensively as a […]

Odds and Ends VI

Note: Sometimes I run across stories (or even just snatches of stories) that are too short to warrant their own Spooky Marion entry. Here are a few of these “odd and ends” concerning our fair town. Face Disfigured by Acid Attack In the evening of June 5th, 1905, a 17-year-old Marion girl named Bessie Ramey […]