Marysville (Michigan)

St. Clair County

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Marysville is a small town in St. Clair County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The town is located on the western shore of the St. Clair River, a few kilometers south of Port Huron and the southern tip of Lake Huron. On the east side of the St. Clair River, the Canadian territory begins; across from Marysville is Froomfield, a suburb of Sarnia. Marysville has about 10,000 inhabitants.

History

Marysville is one of the oldest populated places in Michigan. 1780 went here the first sawmill in operation to process the then abundant Weymouth pine ( white pine ) for lumber, which passed over the St. Clair River to the rapidly growing Detroit. After Detroit in 1805 was almost completely destroyed by a fire, they built another four sawmills. In the 1840s, EP Vickery built a new sawmill here and named the place Vicksburg. In the 1860s Vickery continued selling the sawmill. The new owner renamed the place to enable his wife Mary in Marysville. In October 1919 Marysville was incorporated as a city.

1921 Wills Sainte Claire, the company produced in a newly built factory in Marysville, the first car. Company founder C. Harold Wills was previously chief engineer at Ford Wills Sainte Claire closed the factory in 1926 again, the expected recovery for the city did not put one. In Marysville total of 14,000 cars were produced that showed some innovations such as the use of molybdenum steel and rear headlights. 1935 Chrysler bought the abandoned factory site, and opened there the Marysville Parts Plant for vendor parts. Opened in 1930, the inventor and entrepreneur Garfield Arthur Wood in the village of the Gar Wood Boat Works, which built sport boats. During World War II there grew Gar Wood in collaboration with Chrysler as a boat engine supplier small transport boats ( Navy Personnel Boat) for the U.S. Navy.

Established in 2010, the German automotive supplier ZF Marysville a plant for the manufacture of axles for Chrysler vehicles.

The history and Wills Sainte Claire cars are on display at the Wills Sainte Claire Auto Museum in Marysville.

Sons and daughters of the town

The pop-punk band Every Avenue was founded in Marysville.