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The town of Marbury was originally called Bozeman. In 1876 Mr. Josiah H. Marbury came and established the Marbury Lumber Company, and the town was renamed in his honor after his death in 1895. A son, David H. Marbury, carried on the family business after the elder Marbury passed way.
Marbury Lumber Company was one of the most complete lumber plants in the south, owning about 35,000 acres of fine timber land--all in Autauga County. The capacity of the mill reached about 80,000 feet per day, the employees numbered from 100 to 150 men, and the payroll averaged $5,600 per month.
Three of the earliest private logging railroads in Alabama were in the extreme northeastern corner of Autauga County. The first of these was the saw milling partnership of Smith & Marbury, who had their first narrow-gauge locomotive in late 1879. Their railroad ran to the southwest from Marbury to near Kingston. In 1909, what had been a private logging railroad was incorporated as the common-carrier, Marbury & Kingston Rail Road, with three locomotives. The whole operation, by then simply the Marbury Lumber Company, closed in 1912.
In 1916 the town had its own newspaper, the Marbury Journal. However, it was short lived and, according to Paul Martin, Alabama Newspaper Project Coordinator at Auburn University Library, no issues have been found to be preserved
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