Category: Rust


  • Early Holly History Timeline – Centennial Party Display

    Early Holly History Timeline – Centennial Party Display

    1880: William Anderson is issued a homestead patent for Happy Valley (stretch of land from Anderson Bay up the old railroad tracks into the Valley now (1977) owned by the Warren Family. 1883: “Old” Anderson marries “Indian” Mary James on December 3rd in Happy Valley. 1889: Christian Fredrick “Fritz” Pfundt, his wife Catherin and 9…

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  • Holly’s Second School, c.1905

    Holly’s Second School, c.1905

    The first schoolhouse in Holly was established about 1893. William Rust taught in a building on his land that had originally been his home. Pictured here is Holly’s second school, built in 1905 on land donated by Robert Wyatt Sr. The school was located on the north side of holly, above Bourke’s Point. The dock…

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