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Holland, TX - History


We would like to provide the residents of  Holland  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Holland Home page. The Holland Home page provides as much information as possible on Holland. Knowing Holland’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Holland’s Home page, you will also find Holland’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Holland has a population of 1574. 53.4% of Holland’s inhabitants are Male, and 46.6 are female. 56.3% of Holland is married and 71.3% own their own home. The Average Home price is $126,083, and the average rent is $847. Household median income in Holland is $52,396, and the individual median income is $28,333. Holland’s Ethnic is the following: White(92.3%), Hispanic(17.9%), Black(3.4%), Multiple(2.9%), Other(1.2%), Asian(0.2%).


Holland's history reaches back to a time before the Civil War, when a community known as Mountain Home began to grow up near Gotcher's Mountain, a hill south of town. A post office was established on August 22, 1870, under the name Mountain Home, with James Shaw as postmaster. On November 6, 1871, the Mountain Home post office was officially closed. In 1881, an extension of the Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad was laid out from Denison to Taylor, and the tracks were constructed through Bell County in 1881 and 1882, from north to south, passing through the Holland community.


This brought about the town of Holland as it is known today. James Reuben Holland was born in 1847 in Claiborne County, Tennessee. Holland arrived in Belton, Texas, on October 26, 1874, with a wagon and horses, his wife and four children, and six dollars cash. A. Moss made an application for the Mountain Home community to have a new post office again, but by that time, the name "Mountain Home" had already been claimed by another community.


Without Holland's knowledge, Moss submitted the name "Holland". The Holland post office was officially approved April 10, 1879, with the appointment of Alfred Evans as postmaster. Holland married a young widow in 1867. The widow, Mary Tabitha Hutchens Moore, had one daughter, Macie, from her first marriage.


Together, Holland and Mary had five children: Ellis, Alice, Claude, Mary, and another child that did not live. In 1877, Holland bought 105 acres (42 ha) of land along Darr's Creek for $5.00 an acre. The following year, Holland bought an additional 145 acres (59 ha) and built a steam-powered cotton gin.


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