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Near the Mississippi Delta, the region was advanced by European Americans for cotton plantations and was dependent on enslaved African Americans.
Holly Springs was established by European Americans in 1836, on territory historically occupied by Chickasaw Indians for centuries before Indian Removal.
In the city's beginning year of 1836, it had 4,000 European-American residents. A year later, in 1837, records show that forty inhabitants were lawyers, and there were six physicians by 1838. By 1837, the town already had "twenty dry goods stores, two drugstores, three banks, a several hotels, and over ten saloons." It was home to the Hillcrest Cemetery, assembled on territory given to the town/city in 1837 by settler William S.
Newcomers established the Chalmers Institute, later known as the University of Holly Springs, the earliest college in Mississippi. By 1855 Holly Springs was connected to Grand Junction, Tennessee by the advancing Mississippi Central Railway. In ensuing years, the line was instead of to the south of Hill Springs.
Toward the end of the 19th century, the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Railroad was constructed to intersect this line in Holly Springs.
Some 1,400 inhabitants became ill and 300 died. The existing Marshall County Courthouse, at the center of Holly Springs' square, was used as a hospital amid the epidemic. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 12.7 square miles (33 km2), of which 12.7 square miles (33 km2) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) (0.16%) is water.
According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Holly Springs has a humid subtropical climate, in common with the vast majority of the South. On December 23, 2015, a massive EF4 tornado hit the town at around 6:00 pm causing momentous damage.
2 citizens on the city's south side were killed, including a 7-year-old boy. The child's death was confirmed by James Richard Anderson, the Marshall County, Mississippi, Coroner. Marshall County suffered damage, some total, to nearly 200 structures amid the tornado outbreak, as stated to the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency. As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 7,699 citizens residing in the city.
This is a minority-majority city, as 79.2% of the inhabitants were African American, 19.3% White, 0.2% Native American, 0.2% Asian, 0.6% from some other race and 0.5% from two or more competitions.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 22.81% White, 76.18% African American, 0.06% Native American, 0.16% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 0.06% from other competitions, and 0.69% from two or more competitions.
The City of Holly Springs is served by the Holly Springs School District.
The now defunct Mississippi Industrial College, intended as a vocational training school, was positioned in Holly Springs, as was the Holly Springs Female Institute.
Seth Adams (born 1985), University of Mississippi American football quarterback Edward Hull "Boss" Crump (1874 1954), head of the dominant Democratic Party political machine in Memphis amid the first half of the 20th century, was born in Holly Springs Clifton De - Berry (1924 2006), born in Holly Springs, was the first black American impel for President of the United States by a political party (Socialist Workers Party, 1964, 1980) Wall Doxey (1892 1962), Mississippi politician, served as Congressman and United States Senator; Wall Doxey State Park was titled after him Grant (1822 1885), wintered in Holly Springs before to his attack on Vicksburg, Mississippi, amid the Civil War Mel and Tim (Mel Hardin and Tim Mc - Pherson), soul musicians from Holly Springs who recorded at Stax Records in Memphis, Tennessee.
Hiram Rhodes Revels (1822 1901), first African American to serve in the United States Senate, taught theology at Shaw University (present-day Rust College). Shepard Smith (born 1964), Fox News Channel anchor, born in Holly Springs. Attended high school at Marshall Academy, one of the private schools in town.
Senator who resided in Holly Springs until his death. West (1818 1894), planter, politician, Civil War general and workforce organizer, resided in Holly Springs after the American Civil War until his death.
William Faulkner was inspired to problematic his fictionalized Yoknapatawpha County by a diary found at a Holly Springs plantation. The 1999 movie Cookie's Fortune was set and filmed in Holly Springs.
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"CHAPTER THREE: Holly Springs: Introduction to a North Mississippi City".
Oxford, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi.
"Hillcrest Cemetery: Holly Springs, Marshall County, MS: HISTORIC RESOURCES OF HOLLY SPRINGS" (PDF).
"History of Holly Springs' Jewish community".
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Holly Springs Ledger, 1837-1904 (MUM00232) at the University of Mississippi.
Municipalities and communities of Marshall County, Mississippi, United States
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