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The Shingle Mill, c.1900’s
Just to the left of center in this photo is the water-powered Shingle Mill built in the early 1900’s during logging’s heyday in the area. The Shingle Mill owners, Franz Anderson & John Youngblood, later gathered discarded saws from logging camps & started a can opener factory powered by the same equipment. Even later, they…
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Holly Bay Beachfront
This is an early photo of Holly Bay beachfront. Sometime after this, fill dirt was sluiced in from the hill up behind this area. Photograph donated by Leroy Bowman.
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City of Victoria Steamship, c.1930
Pictured here is the City of Victoria, an ocean-going steamship, docked at the Holly pier. Her captain, Cyprian “Zip” Wyatt, made two separate trips to Holly around 1930. Each time, the passengers disembarked & enjoyed food & beverages prepared by Holly residents. Photograph donated by Frieda Wyatt.
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Holly Bay Pier
Pictured here are swimmers at play near the pier in Holly Bay. Photograph donated by Frieda Wyatt.
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Holly Bay Beach, c.1950
This photograph is of Holly Bay beach, facing south, taken between 1949 & 1950. The 2nd building to the right of the pole on the hillside is Katie Pfundt’s house. (She was also known as “Grandma Pfundt”.) The homes along the beach, from left to right, belonged to: the Moores, the Cramers, Monte Heustis, “Rob”…
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Riverside Timber Co. Logging
Extensive logging in & around the Holly area operated until at least 1905. The Riverside Timber Company logged 21,000 acres in the area. The railroad (1 locomotive, 6 donkey engines, & 10 miles of track) extended from Holly to Hintzville. Logs, rolled into Anderson Cove & assembled into booms, were hauled by tugboat to the…
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Holly Beach Cabins, c.1940
These beachfront cabins, part of a resort owned & operated by Albert Pfundt & his family, are pictured here around 1940. To the left of this photo is the store, dock, & bath house. Vacationers could also rent parking space & use the facilities for the day. Pfundt sold the resort in 1949 & the…
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Holly Store & Pier, c.1920
Albert Pfundt established this store around 1920. He purchased the business from Fred Wyatt and moved part of the structure (by horse power) & barge( from its location on Bourke’s Point to Holly Bay. He then expanded the store & built a 400-foot pier with two sheds to store chicken feed, kerosene, & oil. Mail,…
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HCC Minutes from 1948
“We were then adjourned and partook of shrimp salad and oyster stew. Then we had a glorious time dancing.” From the handwritten minutes of the 4th meeting, February 6, 1948 “Albert Pfundt offered a gift of $40 and the loan of enough money to pay our insurance. The gift was refused with a vote of…
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Lee Wyatt Lives On
Lee Wyatt lives on the property homesteaded by his great-grandfather, Robert Wyatt, the founder of Holly. He can show you the thicket of brush and vine where his grandfather’s house once stood. He can point out an old and somewhat haggard-looking holly tree on the hill – one that his grandfather planted and named Holly…