The first permanent settlement in the Marysville area was founded in 1817 by Revolutionary War veteran Abraham Amrine and his sons. The Amrines had emigrated from Switzerland to Pennsylvania in the early 1700s and, after living in Belmont County, Ohio, for 16 years, Abraham purchased 1000 acres along Mill Creek circa 1817 at $2 an acre. When Paris Township was organized in 1821, township officers were elected in Amrine's home on Newton Pike, now Raymond Road. All seven of his sons—John, Andrew, Moses, Frederick, Jeremiah, Abraham Jr., and Henry—settled there, and Andrew served as a justice of the peace and a church leader. Near this site, Henry built a sawmill in 1822 and a gristmill in 1825, and the family operated them for more than 50 years. Amrine Cemetery contains the remains of the Amrine family and other pioneer families, including the Reed, Staley, Westlake, Wolford, and Wood families, as well as veterans of the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and the Civil War. The Amrine Methodist Church, founded by the family, once stood next to the cemetery and also served as a school; after it closed, it was sold and moved to a nearby farm. In the mid-1800s the local militia held musters at Amrine's mill, and a covered bridge built about 1885 by Reuben L. Partridge of Marysville once crossed the creek on Amrine Mill Road before an accident destroyed it in 1938, though the abutments remain.