Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Moses Ireland laid out and plated the town-site on the west shore of Carnelian Lake, September 7th, 1856, and called it Marysville'. The location was beautiful, and undoubtedly the proprietor expected to soon see a thriving and prosperous city flourishing upon his town-site. But, like many others in the new state, it never rose above a paper town-site.