Editing Murray City, Ohio (section)

==History==
Murray City was [[plat]]ted in 1873 and incorporated in 1891. It was named for John Murray Brown, the original owner of the town site.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_3elPAQAAIAAJ | title=History of Hocking Valley, Ohio | publisher=Inter-State Publishing Co. | year=1883 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_3elPAQAAIAAJ/page/n1070 1015]}}</ref> John Murray Brown was an early settler who bought up the land to lay out the town.  He built a hotel in 1875 for the local workers but sold his interests in the community a few years later to a large coal company.

Murray City was once one of the largest coal towns in the country with over 2,000 residents.  It had a semi-pro football team in the 1920s, the Murray City Tigers, which is now in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.{{citation needed|date=July 2023}}