As a stopping point for stagecoach lines, the hotel was also the city's social center and the first place to receive out-of-town news.

Archer was a member of the Illinois Legislature for sixteen years and a friend and colleague of Abraham Lincoln.

[1] From 1933 to 1943, during the years when it was known as the National-Dixie Hotel, three of the rooms served as the Central Office of Pi Beta Phi fraternity for Women.

Marshall resident Beatrice Stephenson Purdunn, a Pi Beta Phi alumna from the University of Illinois chapter.

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