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History of Holland, Ohio

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Real Estate Agent with Re/Max Preferred Associates, Toledo, OH 353315

  For those of you who live in Holland, Ohio (as I have since 1994) you are aware of the planes, trains, and automobiles.  Did you know how Holland got its name and the stories behind it naming?

Holland, Ohio is said to have gotten its name from two different stories.  The first story is that in the 1850's people were digging canals to divert the swamp watter.  These canals reminded the people of the canals of Holland.  The other story is about Franklin Hall who was a local builder at that time.  Franklin Hall, as the story goes, was platting some land for the building of homes when he asked the clerk, or official at that time, to record then as Hall Land.  The official misunderstood and recorded the plats as Holland thus the name we have today.

In the 1850's the railroad built tracks between Toledo and Chicago which went through Holland, Ohio.  By1880 Holland's population had grown to 230 people and the railroad's freight traffic increasing 20 times and the number of passengers increasing by 400%.  The census of 2000 shows Holland to have a population of 1,306 people, 522 households, and 292 families residing in the Village of Holland.

Today Holland is known for Strawberry Acres Park and its walking trails and playground area.  Holland along with Springfield Township are working to establish a Rail Parkto be located at Clarion and Front Streets at the Norfolk Southern tracks.  Holland is a strong and vibrant community located near Toledo Express Airport, I-475, and the Ohio Turnpike.

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LINDA SABO, REALTOR
RE/MAX PREFERRED ASSOC.
Office:  (419) 867-8022
Mobil:  (419) 481-3117  
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sabo@HomesForSaleLucasCounty.com
 
 

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