Stories, Memories and Thoughts
for Hollemans Crossroads
Introduction
We love to hear the stories that people remember from their youth, especially those tales about where they grew up.
Since the best and most interesting history are the reminiscences told by one person to another, we want to try and record some of them before these little slices of history are lost.
If you have a tale, reminiscence or other thoughts to tell of Hollemans Crossroads, about the places you knew when young, we would like to include them here.
If you're interested, we have some Guidelines about the stories that we would like to place here - please see our Story Guidelines.
Our first story about Hollemans Crossroads:
Letter from Ed Rollins (Received December 1, 2013)
I noticed on your website that you were looking for information about a town in Wake County North Carolina named Enno. It was located at the corner of Avent Ferry Road and Rex Road. There is an old house there known as the Samuel Bartley Holleman House along with an old barn and the old store/post office.
It was first known as Collins then became known as Enno before its name was changed again to Hollomans Crossroads, which it is still known as today.
Around the beginning of the 20th century the community supported several stores including Samuel Hollemans Cotton Gin and store, the Enno Post Office which was used from 1881 to 1907, a school, and two churches: Bethel Christian and Collins Grove Baptist.
My family owned the Mill on Rollins Mill Road and used this post office the entire time it was operational. My Rollins/Avent/Cotton family has lived in the same area since the Revolution and Enno was just one of the many small communities in the area that have come and gone over the years.
I hope this information helps.
Ed Rollins
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