The suburb was founded in 1939 and borders Louis Botha Avenue.[2]: 292 It was surveyed around 1912 and developed from 1921 on land originally on the farm Klipfontein.[3] The suburb's land was owned by Ockert Jacobus van Wyk and was named after his wife Mary.[3] The suburb consists mainly of businesses and a small number of houses.[2]: 292 The suburb is also the home of Maryvale College, a Catholic primary and high school formed in the same year as the suburb though the red bricked church on the grounds was built a year earlier.[2]: 295
^ abRaper, Peter E.; Moller, Lucie A.; du Plessis, Theodorus L. (2014). Dictionary of Southern African Place Names. Jonathan Ball Publishers. p. 1412. ISBN 9781868425501.
