 Union County was home to many industries in its original days from hotels, tanneries, distilleries, breweries, mills, asheries, manufacturers, energy production, banks, grocers, and retailers, among others.Marysville's industrial roots can be traced back to many early companies.Among those were the Marysville Pearlash Factory, an ashery founded in 1848, which by 1874 was the largest in the United States.