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Marysville
History in a Pecan Shell
Mary (Fitch) Corn
and her husband Richard arrived here after the Civil War. A post office opened
in 1873 and stayed open until its closing in the 1940s.
It may have been
named after Marysville, California, the hometown of Mary’s brother, but it’s likely
that Mary Corn is the namesake.
Richard Corn was eager for his town to
grow and so for each person who bought a lot for a residence, Corn threw in a
commercial lot downtown. The 1900 census for Marysville showed a respectable 250
residents served by every essential business.
From the 1920s through 1942
the population was reported at 160. The opening of a military base near a community
was sometimes a benefit and sometimes a destroying factor. Sadly for Marysville,
the construction of Camp Howze during
the war took much of the
land (reportedly three quarters) Marysville was looking to grow into.
The loss of the small farms around Marysville sealed its fate. The population
was down to a mere 70 in the late 1980s and all of the businesses had gone under
or had moved.
Daniel Montague, the namesake of neighboring Montague County
is buried in Marysville’s cemetery. The 2000 census reported a mere 15 residents
– making Marysville a virtual ghost town. |
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1930s
Cooke County map showing Marysville
(Above "CO" in COOKE)
Courtesy
Texas General Land Office |
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