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History · Lake Holiday

Half of Lake Holiday’s homes were built after 1989

Most of Lake Holiday was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1989. Below: maps from 1956 on.

0on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Lake Holiday’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Lake Holiday are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Lake Holiday’s history is told.

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The story

How Lake Holiday came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Lake Holiday.

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Many of the older houses in the community were built in the early 1960s, as was the dam that created Lake Holiday. In March 1993, the Montgomery County Circuit Court approved a district plan that reorganized the governance of the community into two major bodies:

· The Lake Holiday Conservancy District Board of Directors, which owns and is responsible for the lake, dam, boat ramps, parks, clubhouse, drainage, and maintenance building.

· The Board of the Lake Holiday Property Owners Association, which maintains the roads and is responsible for housing and lot developments. The Property Owners Association is a tax-exempt entity.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the map

Lake Holiday on the map, 1956 to 1980

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Lake Holiday. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Lake Holiday on the 1956 USGS mapLake Holiday on the 1980 USGS map1956New Market sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Lake Holiday.

Famous people

Famous people close to Lake Holiday

Nobody well known was born in Lake Holiday itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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The Ultimate WarriorAmerican professional wrestler and bodybuilder · b. 1959
Joseph P. AllenAmerican astronaut · b. 1937
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James DunbarAmerican rower · b. 1930
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Howie WilliamsBasketball player · b. 1927
Eleanor LambertAmerican fashion publicist · b. 1903
Howdy WilcoxAmerican racing driver · b. 1889

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Where this page comes from

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 Wikipedia and U.S. Geological Survey historical maps. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.