Marysville, Texas
| Marysville, Texas | |
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| Unincorporated community | |
 Marysville
Marysville
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| Coordinates: 33°46′14″N 97°20′03″W / 33.77056°N 97.33417°WCoordinates: 33°46′14″N 97°20′03″W / 33.77056°N 97.33417°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Texas |
| County | Cooke |
| Population (2000) | |
| • Total | 15 |
| Time zone | Central (CST) (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
Marysville is a small, unincorporated community in northwestern Cooke County, Texas, USA. It lies approximately 3 miles from the Texas-Oklahoma border.
In the spring of 1859, California natives Richard Corn and his wife, Mary Fitch Corn, settled in the vicinity of Sivell's Bend just south of the Red River. After residing in the community for several years, Corn decided to move a few miles southwest along Fish Creek in the area that came to be known as Marysville in the winter of 1866-67. Corn soon discovered that the loose sandy soil wasn't adequate for farming, so he began erecting a large sawmill in the valley of South Fish Creek that spring. When D.H. Sapp and his family arrived later in the summer, Corn was in the process of building the mill along with the assistance of mechanic William DeWees. The Sapps aided in the mill's completion the following spring.
The sawmill encompassed approximately 3,000 square feet of space, according to D.H. Sapp's accounts, and boasted a forty-foot tread mill that was powered by 6-10 oxen. It proved to be a successful investment for Corn. There was no other local sawmill in the area for several more years afterwards, so people from Montague and Clay Counties as well as southern Indian Territory would travel to Corn's mill to have their wheat and corn ground.
It was around this time that R.A. Fitch, Corn's brother-in-law, arrived from Marysville, CA to live with his sister. He discussed the idea of establishing a town with D.H. Sapp and Corn that winter and planned to put in some merchandise near the mill. When the Sapps built a home just south of present-day Marysville, Fitch moved their old cabin to the mill. Here, he opened a small general store that spring of 69'. The new "town" was dubbed "Marysville" by Fitch and Corn in honor of their home town in California as well as a reference to Mary Fitch Corn's name.
Two years later, in March 1871, a man by the name of F.M. Savage arrived in Marysville. The town had not prospered as quickly as Corn and Fitch had hoped as Savage only recalled six permanent dwellings on the site. Mr. Savage's father, William Savage, soon followed his son the area and built a steam sawmill. Old Man Savage, a retired surveyor, was asked by Corn and Fitch to make a plat for the townsite. The population had doubled by the following year.
The Savages later built a large general merchandise store, the first building of lumber in Marysville. Their mill, which converted adjacent timber into lumber, was essential in providing the town with the materials its residents needed in erecting buildings.
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