On this day in 1862, two groups of miners from California camped on Little Pine Creek where they discovered gold. They named their camp, Marysville, in honor of their home town in California.

The settlement grew as more miners, gamblers, merchants and saloon people flocked in. A school was built and the small mining town flourished until Canyon City was founded nearby and then, in a pattern familiar to many mining settlements, Marysville was abandoned, leaving only a few weathered shacks as its marker in time.