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HOLLY GROVE, TEXAS (Freestone County). Holly Grove, a half mile off Interstate Highway 45 in southwestern Freestone County, was once a school community. The Holly Grove school had an enrollment of fifteen in 1903. During the 1930s the community comprised a few scattered dwellings and a business nearby. By the 1980s only the Holly Grove Cemetery remained at the site.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Freestone County Historical Commission, History of Freestone County, Texas (Fairfield, Texas, 1978).

Chris Cravens

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