SCOTTSVILLE, TEXAS. Scottsville, on Farm roads 1998 and 2199,
four miles east of Marshall in east central Harrison County, was
named after its founder, William Thomas Scott, who moved to
Texas from Louisiana in 1840. In 1840 Scott's slaves built his
lavish plantation home, reputedly identical to Jefferson Davis's
Mississippi mansion. Scottsville's white schoolchildren attended
classes in the small schoolhouse that Scott had built; it was
staffed with the Scott family governess. The Scotts also
established the first church in the community, a Methodist
congregation. During the Civil War the Scott plantation provided
provisions for Confederate troops. On August 4, 1869,
Scottsville was granted a post office. Its population was
reported as 300 in 1929, as 50 during the Great Depression, and
as around 260 by 1950, a total that remained fairly steady into
the 1980s. In the early 1990s Scottsville, which still had its
post office, was an incorporated community and reported 287
residents and eleven businesses. In 20