Farmersville, Tulare County's third oldest community, dates to 1866, when Merrill Jasper and John Crowley established a general store at this location. In 1868, Thomas G Brundage bought the store, applied for a post office, and chose the name Farmersville for a town surrounded by small farms. Brundage and his son Oscar continued operating the store into the 1920s. By the 1870s, Farmersville had a school, a blacksmith shop, two doctors, a newspaper, a lumberyard, and a saloon, and it became a trading center for farmers and ranchers from as far east as the Yokohl Valley. In 1902, the first church, Methodist, was formed. In the early 1930s, the community became a refuge for migrant families from the drought-stricken Middle West Dust Bowl. Farmersville was incorporated as a city in 1960 with James Tornow as mayor, Carl Waddle as city clerk, and Truman Qualls, Don Freeman, Willis Freeman, and Jim Stevens as city councilmen.