The Seattle Sutton Marseilles Museum helps us remember our rich history. That history starts in the 1830's when settlers in built a cabin by the Illinois river. The arrival of the Illinois-Michigan Canal (1848), the railroad (1853), and the Nabisco factory (1902) are also milestones in our city's history.

Seattle Sutton Marseilles Museum was founded in 2015 as a non-profit museum to serve Marseilles IL and the surrounding communities.

To provide an accessible museum to inform and educate youth and constituents about the history of the city of Marseilles and surrounding communities.

SSMMI is housed in the historic Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad depot built in 1917, and operated as a train station until 1974. The depot was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1995.