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History · Marysville

Marysville’s post office opened in 1881, and 1 of its places is on the National Register

Most of Marysville was built recently: 7% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1993. Its Register listing is the Methodist-Episcopal Church of Marysville. Below: 2 old photos and papers and maps from 1888 on.

1881first post office
1on the National Register
7%homes built before 1940
2old photos & papers
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From Marysville’s archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers

How Marysville began

When was Marysville founded?

1881

The Marysville post office opened in 1881, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 82145 years
Founding year: the first Marysville post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Marysville’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 2 old photos are in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 18897 editions of the USGS map, 1889 to 1975. Watch Marysville change.Mapped building by building4 fire insurance maps, 1888 to 1914, drew every building in Marysville.
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Start Marysville’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Marysville’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Retake an old viewView of the mines at Marysville Montana…: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
On the map

Marysville on the map, 1889 to 1975

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Marysville. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Marysville on the 1889 USGS mapMarysville on the 1893 USGS mapMarysville on the 1903 USGS mapMarysville on the 1947 USGS mapMarysville on the 1958 USGS mapMarysville on the 1960 USGS mapMarysville on the 1975 USGS map1889Helena sheet · 1:250,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Marysville.

Every building

Marysville, building by building, 1888–1914

Fire insurance maps drew every building, what it was made of and what it was used for, so insurers could price the risk of fire. Pick a year, then a sheet.

Marysville fire insurance map, 1888, sheet 11888Sheet 1 of 3
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Sanborn Map Company, via the Library of Congress. Editions published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.

The story

How Marysville came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Marysville.

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Marysville was a bustling mining town of 3,000 residents in the 1880s and 1890s and was the center of gold mining in Montana. The town was named by Thomas Cruse, mine owner, to honor Mary Ralston the wife of a miner. A few buildings remain, including a baseball field with bleachers and the historic Methodist-Episcopal Church of Marysville. The population as of the 2010 census was 80.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Marysville, 1881 to 1889

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1881Post officeThe Marysville post office opens
  3. 1884In the archiveView of the mines at Marysville Montana by Carleton E Watkins
  4. 1889On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Marysville, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1880s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1880s2 items
View of the mines at Marysville Montana by Carleton E Watkins1884View of the mines at Marysville Montana by Carleton E…CityMeatMarketMarysvilleMontana-Haynes18891889CityMeatMarketMarysvilleMontana-Haynes1889
1890s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Add from your album
Today1 recent
Marysville, Montana2008Marysville, Montana
Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

View of the mines at Marysville Montana by Carleton E Watkins
Retake this viewView of the mines at Marysville Montana by Carleton E Watkins, 1884

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Marysville’s page.

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On the National Register

1 historic place in Marysville

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
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none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1984
Methodist-Episcopal Church of Marysville
Methodist-Episcopal Church of Marysville
Buildings
All 1 listings
Methodist-Episcopal Church of MarysvilleBuilding · listed 1984

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Places that used to be

Places now gone

Marysville’s post office has been open since 1881.

Gone or out of use
MarysvillelocaleMarysville Post Officepost officeMarysville Schoolschool

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Marysville’s history

What year was Marysville founded?

The Marysville post office opened in 1881, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Marysville?

One place: the Methodist-Episcopal Church of Marysville (listed 1984).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

Where this page comes from

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), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and Sanborn fire insurance maps (Library of Congress). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.