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Mackie - Marshall Home
206 E. Riverside Drive

Thornton Francis Marshall, the Kentucky lawmaker who cast the deciding vote that kept the Commonwealth in the Union, lived here in the 1860s.

The house was virtually untouched during the Battle of Augusta, as fire jumped this house and destroyed the building next to it. Built around 1810 for Dr. George Mackie, a physician and early settler of Augusta. Dr. Mackie’s daughter, Eliza, married Marshall. He served just one term in the Kentucky legislature. While he supported the Union cause, Marshall served as a Kentucky delegate to the Democratic Convention in Chicago, which nominated General George B. McClellan to run against President Lincoln in the election of 1864.