Holley, Georgia

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

History

A variant spelling was "Holly".[1] A post office called Holly Creek was established in 1843, the name was changed to Holly in 1894, and the post office closed in 1909.[2] The community derives its name from nearby Holly Creek.[3]

gollark: I install most of my software from the repos on Arch and it is *still* faster than Windows updating only itself and its random junk.
gollark: My Arch system: package updates run in the background, on demand, basically no manual intervention, except I need to reboot for kernel updates and it takes 30 seconds.Windows: the entire system updates at once, it randomly breaks, I can't use the system while it updates and it's far too slow.
gollark: They should just have designed updates better.
gollark: My parents are still on windows, you see. And I do tech support.
gollark: I've seen forced updates and Candy Crush.

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Holley
  2. "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  3. Krakow, Kenneth K. (1975). Georgia Place-Names: Their History and Origins (PDF). Macon, GA: Winship Press. p. 111. ISBN 0-915430-00-2.



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