Holland, Georgia

Holland is an unincorporated community in Chattooga County, in the U.S. state of Georgia.[1]

History

The community was named after Charles I. Holland, an early postmaster.[2] An early variant name was "Holland's Store" after its local country store.[3] A post office was established as Holland's Store in 1879, the name was changed to Holland in 1889, and the post office closed in 1953.[4]

gollark: It isn't used for our main fear processing yet.
gollark: We have an experimental bee computer which uses the interactions of the apioforms to execute the bewaring processes, and the power of it scales tetrationally with bee density.
gollark: There are more than that, silly.
gollark: Yes...?
gollark: We actually have sufficient compute to beware all extant, imaginable or unimaginable apioforms 492 times over.

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Holland, Georgia
  2. Krakow, Kenneth K. (1975). Georgia Place-Names: Their History and Origins (PDF). Macon, GA: Winship Press. p. 111. ISBN 0-915430-00-2.
  3. "Chattooga County". Calhoun Times. September 1, 2004. p. 38. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  4. "Chattooga County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 25 April 2015.



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