Hello, I recently found this newspaper clipping in a box of my grandmother's pictures. It has no date, but there are clues at the beginning. Maybe someone on the list has ancestors listed. Mine are William and James Moyers. Gale >From old newspaper clipping: (written when the population of Blue Ridge was 544, three years after incorporation, two years after the square was blacktopped, and the same year a $30,000. water system was installed.) BLUE RIDGE IS INCORPORATED Blue Ridge, Texas. -- The town of Blue Ridge, located in northeast Collin county, was given its name because it was built on a ridge that used to be covered with blue grass, according to old-timers. I.D. Sellars and Henry Eakle were the first known settlers, coming here in 1873 and farming the land where the present town site is located. The first store was owned and operated by BILL MOYERS and JIM MOYERS, being housed in a one-room log cabin with dirt floor and consisting of about $50.00 worth of stock. In 1874, a one-room log school building was erected about three blocks south of town. Six pupils enrolled under Sam McKinney, teacher, and the pupils averaged going to school about two days a week. Sam McKinney, Gus Whatley and JIM and BILL MOYERS operated the second store here, going in business after the MOYERS BROTHERS' store burned. The second store was a block north of the present business section. Zac Abernathy opened a dry goods and grocery store in 1874. The next year a drug store was opened by Dr. Graves and Dr. Tate. In 1876, Julius Connor and BILL MOYERS bought the present town site from Mr. Abernathy, laid it off in lots and the town began to build rapidly.... Among other early settlers were J.S. Sinclair, Gabe Warden, Jesse Short, Jack Smith, George Hart, Bill Pruitt, Robert McCarley, J.A. Barnett, Jim and John Griffith, Bill Christian, Ike Dodson, and Bill Warden.