Sep 2011

From; http://www.marionfire.us/fire_history.htm



  The Hayton Garage was the largest garage building in Marion and one of the largest in the state.  It was 300 ft long 
and 100 ft wide covering the width of the block between N. Market and Madison Streets.  The building was erected by
 Hosea Cagle in 1915 and was operated by him for several yrs as a garage.  It was later leased by John Whiteside who
 ran a garage there until after Cagle’s death when the garage building was sold through court to the Wesley Hayton of
 Carterville and Maurice Hayton of Marion operating as the Hayton Motor Sales Co.  The firm which came here with the
 Studebaker agency and first located in the old Goodall building had just recently taken over the Chrysler agency.