Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1948 on and the census since 1890.
The New Holland post office opened in 1875, the earliest record of the town by name.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how New Holland’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of New Holland yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
New Holland is a village in Logan County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2020 census, New Holland had a population of 275.
Its first post office opened in 1875. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 269 to 275 (+2%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Peaked at 457 in 1920; 275 people lived here in 2020.
14 censuses, 1890–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on New Holland’s Wikipedia page.
Passages that mention New Holland, cut from the printed page as they were published.
New Horitanp M. E. Cuurcu: The New Holland Methodist Church was the outgrowth of the Richmond Grove Church society organized in 1867 about a mile and a half from the present site of the village of New Holland. The society was jointly composed of Methodists and Cumberland Presbyterians. Garrett M. Laforge donated to the society sufficient land on which to erect a church and the building was erected that same year and dedicated by Rev. Hiram Buck. The pastor was J. T. Simmons and the trustees were Henry B. Stephens, Daniel
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was organized May 3, 1873, and held services in the Richmond Grove M. E. church for a number of years on alternate Sundays with the Methodists. The church building was located a mile and half southwest of the present site of New Holland. New Holland was platted in 1875. When the Methodist society decided to build a new church in New Holland, it sold the Richmond Grove church building to the Cumberland Presbyterians, who moved it to New Holland in 1883 and located it on lots donated the society by Oliver Holland. The present pastor is Rev.
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father to Illinois. When they came to Logan County he settled on and improved the southeast quarter of section 19, and in 1856 built his residence. In 1868 he moved to Mason City and engaged in the grain trade, and when New Holland was laid out built the first elevator there. After several years of business life he returned to his farm, but subsequently moved to New Holland, where he died June 28, 1884. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity. He was a soldier in the war of the Rebellion, enlist-
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father to Illinois. When they came to Logan County he settled on and improved the southeast quarter of section 19, and in 1856 built his residence. In 1868 he moved to Mason City and engaged in the grain trade, and when New Holland was laid out built the first elevator there. After several years of business life he re¬ turned to his farm, but subsequently moved to New Holland, where he died June 28, 1884. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity. He was a soldier in the war of the Rebellion, enlist¬
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of New Holland. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of New Holland.
Nobody well known was born in New Holland itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
The New Holland post office opened in 1875, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
