The township was organized in 1839, named for the site of the Battle of Marathon in ancient Greece.
Written in 1820, when Barrett was just 14, it retells powerfully The Battle of Marathon: during which the Athenian state defeated the much larger invading force during the first Persian invasion of Greece.
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