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Hammond Bridge · Photo: JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ MD · CC BY-SA 3.0Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1929 on, and the census since 1860.
The Marysville post office opened in 1869, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Ely (1853), opened inside today’s city and later closed.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Marysville’s history is told.
Peaked at 348 in 1890; 44 people lived here in 2020.
17 censuses, 1860–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Marysville’s Wikipedia page.
From Wikipedia’s history of Marysville.
There are numerous coal exposures on the banks of the branches of Cedar Creek both north and south of Marysville. In 1846, one exposure south of Marysville was found to be on fire, and this fire continued until June 1851, when heavy rains and flooding extinguished the fire.
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Passages that mention Marysville, cut from the printed page as they were published.
MARYSVILLE The Town of Marysville, in the southwestern part of Liberty Township, was surveyed by James A. Rousseau, county surveyor, for Joseph Brobst, on February 11, 1851, and the plat was filed on March 4,1851. It shows twenty-six lots with a public square in the center equal in size to four lots. In March, 1854, this public square was conveyed by the proprietor to Mathias Ulsh, who laid it out in lots under the name of Ulsh's addition. Since that time Ulsh &
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It is quite probable that Martin Neel was the first white man to establish a domicile within the present limits of the township. Just when he settled on Cedar Creek, not far from the present Town of Marysville, is not definitely known, but the date is supposed to have been before the Indian title to the land was extinguished on May i, 1843. Mr. Neel was a Kentuckian by birth and in establishing his home so far in advance of the margin of civilization he invited a" the
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Marysville is situated on the south-west quarter of the southeast quarter of section 29, on the north side of South Cedar, in the beautiful vale that margins this stream. It was laid out by James Rousseau, Feb. 11, '57, on land then owned by Joseph Brobst and Josiah Brobst, the former owning the west side and the latter the east side of what is now the main street of the village. The surveying was done by James Rousseau; John B. Ely and Jacob Stambach, chain carriers. The place
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
In the archiveMarysvilleMines
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyOne decade in the archive so far: the 1900s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Marysville. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Marysville.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Marysville’s page.
Retake this view · +15Nobody well known was born in Marysville itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Marysville had its own post office from 1869 to 1934. Another post office, Ely, opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The Marysville post office opened in 1869, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From Wikimedia Commons (3), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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