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History · Holway

20% of Holway’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1969 on.

0on the National Register
20%homes built before 1940
1famous people
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What stands out about Holway’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 Holway 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 Holway’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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The story

How Holway came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Holway.

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The six mile (10 km) square that would become Holway was first surveyed in the summer of 1847 by a crew working for the U.S. government. Then in 1854 another crew marked all the section corners in the township, walking through the woods and swamps, measuring with chain and compass. When done, the deputy surveyor filed this general description:

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Holway, 1891 to 1969

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1891Post officeThe Halway post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1903Post officeThe Halway post office closes
  5. 1932Born hereDonald Erwin Wilson is born here
  6. 1969On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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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

Holway on the map, 1969 to 1980

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

Holway on the 1969 USGS mapHolway on the 1980 USGS map1969Lublin SE 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 Holway.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds

Another post office, Halway, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Gone or out of use
Forest Grove SchoolschoolLarson SchoolschoolLincoln SchoolschoolPine Creek Schoolschool
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Holway
AmishOur Saviours LutheranSaint Marys Catholic

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

MaplehurstIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLittle BlackIts storyB−HammelIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townHoardIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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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, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.