The story
Read it all →How Marshall came to be
From Wikipedia’s history of Marshall.
The town was named after brothers Harvey and John Marshall, who settled in the town in 1851.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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History · Marshall
43% of Marshall’s homes were built before 1940
Below: maps from 1983 on.
0on the National Register
43%homes built before 1940
What stands out about Marshall’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
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Start Marshall’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Marshall’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.Places that used to be
Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds
Four other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
Fancy Creek
Mill Creek
Gillingham
McGrew
18501940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
GillinghamMcGrewMill Creek
Gone or out of use
Edgewood Fruit FarmlocaleEl Pac Ranch Landing StripairportEnglish Ridge SchoolschoolHickory Grove SchoolschoolLowery SchoolschoolPutnam SchoolschoolSchool Number 2schoolSchool Number 4schoolSpring Hill Schoolschool
4cemeteries and burying grounds inside Marshall
Ash RidgeEnglish RidgeFancy CreekSpring Hill
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Timeline
Marshall, 1854 to 1983
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
- 19th century
- 1854Post officeThe Fancy Creek post office opens
- 1857Post officeThe Mill Creek post office opens
- 1880Post officeThe Gillingham post office opens
- 1892Post officeThe Fancy Creek post office closes
- 20th century
- 1901Post officeThe Mill Creek post office closes
- 1983Post officeThe Gillingham post office closes
- 1983
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade
Marshall, decade by decade
Today2 recent
2017
2004On the map
Marshall on the map in 1983
The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Marshall.
1983Gillingham sheet · 1:24,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Marshall.
Famous people
See all →Famous people close to Marshall
Nobody well known was born in Marshall itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Stories next door
History across the town line
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Questions about Marshall’s history
Memory lane
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Start a conversation
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 (2), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.