 "There
was
once a community/town west of
Pottsboro called Martin
Springs, where a natural spring is. This spring is connected
to Spout
Springs, Brogdon Springs, etc. I think it was near
the present
intersection of Kyker Lane and 120 west of Pottsboro. It had
a post
office and a cotton gin at least.
I have a postcard postmarked Martin
Springs, TX and cotton gin receipts to my great great great
grandfather Robert Daniel who was one of the early settlers, coming
here
in 1866 from Missouri to west of Pottsboro."
Martin
Springs community was located between Pottsboro and Willow Springs.
Records of the Post Office Department in the National
Archives
show that a post office was established at Martin Springs, Grayson
County, Texas on Nov. 8, 1895.
Women would take their clothing to was in the springs, using tree limbs to hang the clean garments to dry. Tubs and pots were left at the springs for this weekly chore. When the county road gang worked through the area, they would dam up the spring and form a large pool to water their stock and setting up headquarters at Martin Springs while they worked in that part of the county. The school house was a small frame building which was torn down in 1911. All of the buildings have been gone from the area since the 1920's. At one time Martin Springs had a coton gin owned by a man named Thomas. There was, also, a blacksmith shop, two or three houses and a store.  Martin Springs History  Ghost Towns of Texoma, vol 3 ~ Martin Springs & Mineral City by Natalie Bauman available at Amazon.com  Martin Springs History Towns Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson County TXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |