The Overall ranch extended from southwest of Coleman for about 12 miles.  The Adam T. Brown ranch began where the Overall ranch ended and it also extended several miles on to the south.  From a mountain range which ran through the Overall ranch and into the Brown ranch, the rolling plains extended as far as one could see to the east and to the Brady Mountains, fifty miles to the south.  Trees were very scarce and much of the Brown ranch was put into cultivation.  The long rows of cotton drew many settlers from the east where the term “patches of cotton” had originated, for the fields there were very small and surrounded by trees left from clearing the land.  The Brown ranch house was about one and a half miles southwest of the town of Fisk.  The house is still there, but not liveable.

E. E. Griffin and C. L. Martin surveyed and layed out the town site of Fisk.  A gin was built in 1905 and Mr. John Terry was contacted to move to Fisk from Iowa Park in Wichita County to operate the gin.  The gin was called the Togo Gin and the town was called Togo until 1907, when the post office was chartered.  They applied for a post office to be called Togo.  There was already a Togo in Texas, so the state sent a list of names available.  Those who were interested chose the name Fisk, after Admiral Fisk, a soldier who served in the Spanish-American War.  Those who served as post masters during the some seventy years Fisk had a post office were Bert Stafford, Martha J. Terry, Mae Cornelius, C. C. Hamilton, Sally Boone, Eva Bell, Lola Kinsey, Edna Tisdale, and Lena Clevenger.

A community building was built in 1907.  The tabernacle was built by men in the community for community use.  There were singings, showers, home demonstration and club meetings in later years.  The Church of Christ and the Primitive Baptist Church also used it for church services.  Lunch was served there by the ladies in the community when the men had rabbit drives.  The building was built square with the four corners cut off, making an octagonal shape.  There were windows in the four corners.  The north wall was solid with a door and two windows, but the west, south, and east walls were made in panels which were hinged at the top.  These could be raised to make an open air tabernacle for summer use.  The only air conditioning was the breeze.

The original Togo Gin operated as the Planters Gin Company, Togo, on the Brown ranch in the beginning.  Mr. Terry operated the same gin until 1920 when it was sold to Sam Hale and Associates.  It was moved west of Brown Ranch and operated there two years before it burned and was not replaced.  Mr. Terry bought a gin at Hardin and moved it in 1921.  He started ginning in 1922 and ran the gin until 1939 when it was sold and moved to Hatchell in Runnels County.

Fisk had a Woodsmen of the World organization which was active from 1911 to 1919.  Fisk also had a barber shop and a library at one time.  Until recent years there was at least one store at Fisk and at most times, two.  They were general stores, selling a variety of things such as food, shoes, hats, shirts, material, coal oil, or nails.  Those to operate stores were Bert Stafford, H. R. Miller, W. H. Terry, John Terry, Gene Bell, W. F. Kinsey, Marion McKee, and Melvin Snider.

A boarding house was important to the early community as people were coming in the early years to buy property.  The land was rented until about 1905, when Mr. Brown began to sell off the ranch.  Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Mincey owned property here and built a house north of Fisk.  It was a large two-storied house, known in later years as the Dee Whitfield house, but was operated as a boarding house in the early days.

Another enterprise was telephones and the local switch board.  Those known to have been switchboard operators were Mrs. Jesse Moore, Miss Jenny Crawford, Thelma Sikes, Lucille McKee, Gertrude Adian, and Vivian Moore.

Blacksmiths were another important part of the farming community.  Those known to have been local blacksmiths were Jim Priddy, Albert LeMay, Chester Ballard, T. E. Lewis, a Mr. Delaney, and a Mr. Holt.  We had a garage at Fisk two separate times and as many as three service stations at one time.