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HOLLY SPRINGS, a city and the county-seat of Marshall county, Mississippi, U.S.A., in the N. part of the state, 45 M. S.E. of Memphis. Pop. (189o) 2246; (1900) 2815 (155g negroes); (1910) 2192. Holly Springs is served by the Illinois Central and the Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham (Frisco System) railways. The city has broad and well-shaded streets, and a fine court-house and court-house square. It is the seat of Rust University (opened in 1867), a Methodist Episcopal institution for negroes; of the Mississippi Synodical College
(19o5; Presbyterian), for white girls; and of the North Missis-
sippi Agricultural Experiment Station. The principal industries
are the ginning, compressing and shipping of cotton, and the
manufacture of cotton-seed oil, but the city also manufactures
pottery and brick from clay obtained in the vicinity, and has
an ice factory, bottling works and marble works. The munici-
pality owns and operates its water-works and electric-lighting
plant. Holly Springs was founded in 1837 and was chartered
as a city in 1896. Early in December 1862 General Grantestablished here a large depot of supplies designed for the use of the Federal army while on its march toward Vicksburg, but General Earl Van Dorn, with a brigade of cavalry, surprised the post at daylight on the loth of this month, burned the supplies and took 1500 prisoners. Holly Springs was the home and is the burial-place of Edward Cary Walthall (1831–1898), a Democratic member of the United States Senate in 1885–1894 and in 1895–1898.