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Introduction ...

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

  • That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
  • We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
  • On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about Hollytree (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Hollytree. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Neighboring Counties ...

When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived:  their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the west contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.

Hollytree is located in Jackson County.

To see how the shape of Alabama's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Jackson County: DeKalb, Madison, Marshall, Dade (GA), Franklin (TN) & Marion (TN).

Below are the counties that are near Hollytree. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Hollytree:

  • Jackson County     (The home county of Hollytree)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hollytree, with the one closest to Hollytree listed first.
    • Princeton
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Princeton is also located in Jackson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Princeton
    • Trenton
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Beachboro ‑ Historic
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Beachboro was located in Jackson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beachboro
    • Pleasant Groves
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
      • Pleasant Groves is also located in Jackson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Groves
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 404 people
    • Baileytown
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Cumberland Mountain Farm Colony ‑ Historic
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Skyline
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Skyline is also located in Jackson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Skyline
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 835 people
    • Estillfork
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Estillfork is also located in Jackson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Estillfork
    • Lim Rock
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Maynard Cove
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Mud Creek ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
      • Mud Creek was located in Jackson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mud Creek
    • Larkinsville
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Paint Rock
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • DeKalb County
  • Limestone County
    • Capshaw
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Capshaw is located in Limestone County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Capshaw
  • Madison County
  • Marshall County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hollytree, with the one closest to Hollytree listed first.
    • Grant
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Columbus City Ferry
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Columbus City Ferry is located in Marshall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Columbus City Ferry
    • Columbus City
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Columbus City is located in Marshall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Columbus City
    • Mid ‑ Historic
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
      • Mid was located in Marshall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mid
    • Fort Deposit ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Fort Deposit was located in Marshall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Deposit
    • Ferns Quarter ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Ferns Quarter was located in Marshall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ferns Quarter
    • North ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • North was located in Marshall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North
    • Union Grove
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
  • Morgan County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hollytree, with the one closest to Hollytree listed first.
    • Lacey's Spring
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Morgan City
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Morgan City is located in Morgan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morgan City
    • Briscoe
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Franklin County (TN)
  • Lincoln County (TN)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hollytree, with the one closest to Hollytree listed first.
    • Flintville
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Corder Crossroads
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Howell Hill
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Goshen ‑ Historic
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Goshen was located in Lincoln County (TN)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goshen
    • Park City Heights
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Park City Heights is located in Lincoln County (TN)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Park City Heights
      • Population from the 2010 Census: 2,442 people
    • Park City
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Clarks Ferry
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Clarks Ferry is located in Lincoln County (TN)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clarks Ferry
      • Estimated population in 2014: 387 people
    • Gattistown
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Gattistown is located in Lincoln County (TN)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gattistown
      • Estimated population in 2014: 4,158 people
    • Camargo
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Elk Mill Village
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Elk Mill Village is located in Lincoln County (TN)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elk Mill Village
    • Fayetteville
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Marion County (TN)
    • Orme
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Orme is located in Marion County (TN)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orme
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 107 people

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Hollytree, see our County-by-County Page for Hollytree.

Cemeteries Near Hollytree ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Hollytree.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Hollytree - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Hollytree covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Hollytree, with the one closest to Hollytree listed first.

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<2>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Hollytree had a post office and no railroad service.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Hollytree, with the one closest to Hollytree listed first.

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Hollytree. See our List of 1890's Communities around Hollytree.

Newspapers Published in Hollytree ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 26 newspapers that have been published in the area around Hollytree.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Hollytree, there are papers which were published within 19 miles [30.6 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Hollytree.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Hollytree:

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Hollytree, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Hollytree) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.