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.