Holly Springs, Mississippi

Holly Springs
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Location in Mississippi
	Holly Springs
	Holly Springs
Basic data
Foundation :	1836
State :	United States
State :	Mississippi
County :	Marshall County
Coordinates :	34 ° 46 ′ N , 89 ° 27 ′ W Coordinates: 34 ° 46 ′ N , 89 ° 27 ′ W
Time zone :	Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Residents :	7,957 (as of:)
FIPS :	28-33100
GNIS ID :	693510
Website :	www.hollyspringsmsus.com

Holly Springs is a city in Marshall County in the state of Mississippi and the seat of the county administration and court of the county. ( County Seat ).

location

Interstate 22 runs through Holly Springs in northern Mississippi near the Tennessee border . The I-22 connects Birmingham, Alabama with Memphis, Tennessee .

population

Holly Springs had 7,621 residents in 2017 and has lost 4.2% population since 2000. The median age was 32.4 years. The median income per household in 2017 was $ 32,522 (Mississippi average: $ 43,529) while the median income per capita was $ 18,849. 28.7% of residents lived below the poverty line. In 2017, 78.8% of the residents were African American and 19.1% were white.

history

The Holly Springs area was originally the Chickasaw settlement area . In 1836 the place was founded under the name Suavatooky , but was raised to the city in the following year under the name Holly Springs . In 1837 it also became the county seat of the newly formed Marshall County. Holly Springs was a center of cotton growing and trading, and thus slavery, in northern Mississippi in the period before the American Civil War . From 1855 it was connected to Grand Junction in Tennessee by the Mississippi Central Railroad . During the Civil War, Holly Springs was important because of the rail link. General Ulysses S. Grant used it as a supply depot until Southern General Earl Van Dorn burned his depot in December 1862. The train station and a large part of the town were destroyed. After the civil war, the place recovered economically, but was the victim of a yellow fever epidemic in 1878, in which more than 2000 residents died.

In December 2015, as part of the tornado outbreak from 23-25 Two people died in Holly Springs December 2015 .

In 2020 the First Pentecostal Church in Holly Springs burned during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States . The church filed a disease control lawsuit before it fell victim to arson.