The
village of Springville, located near the earlier Toadsuck Saloon, grew
up on the Joshua Miller place. He
was the first Anglo-American to arrive in the area in the late 1850's. Mrs. Lodoweska Collins and her two sons arrived from Ann Arbor, Michigan shortly after the Civil War. Mrs. Collins worked for improvements and established a free school upon her arrival. The
Texas and Pacific line was built about three quarters of a mile from
Toadsuck in 1881 which
contributed to making the community a shipping and retail point for
area farmers. By
1887, most of its businesses and residents had moved to the tracks. The
railroad town was incorporated in the 1890s and renamed Collinsville
source: An Illustrated history of Grayson County, Texas, 1960, pg34-35 
Collinsville, Texas
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