Holly Springs

Holly Springs is the name of some places in the United States of America:

Holly Springs, Mississippi

Holly Springs is a city in and county seat of Marshall County, Mississippi, United States near southern Tennessee.

Near the Mississippi Delta, the area was developed as cotton plantations and dependent on African slaves. Since the 19th century, the county has had a majority-black population. After the American Civil War, many freedmen continued to work in agriculture but as sharecroppers and tenant farmers. As the county seat, the city is a center of trade and court sessions. The population was 7,957 at the 2000 census. A slight decrease in population was calculated in the 2010 census.

History

Holly Springs was founded by European Americans in 1836, on territory historically occupied by Chickasaw Indians for centuries before Indian Removal carried out as a result of the Treaty of Pontotoc Creek of 1832. Most early residents were from Virginia, but also Georgia and the Carolinas. In its founding year of 1836, there were 4,000 European residents. A year later, in 1837, records show that forty residents were lawyers, and six physicians by 1838. By 1837, the town already had "twenty dry good stores, two drugstores, three banks, several hotels, and over ten saloons." It was home to the Hillcrest Cemetery, built on land given to the city by William S. Randolph, an early settler, in 1837. It was also home to the Chalmers Institute, also known as the University of Holly Springs, the oldest university in Mississippi.