Collinsville History

Originally called Springtown, settlement began in the 1850s. Joshua Miller donated land for the town site and a post office was briefly in operation from 1857-1858. A woman named L. M. Collins from Ann Arbor, Michigan opened what is believed to be the first free school in North Texas. The town was renamed in her honor in the 1890s when they incorporated. A more permanent post office opened in 1872 and the railroad (The Texas and Pacific) came through in 1881. By 1900 the town had a respectable 600 citizens - a figure it kept through the 1950s. It passed the one thousand mark for the 1990 Census and in 2000 the population was just over 1,200.