Welcome to the Town of Holly Colorado
The Town Hall is located in the Historic Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Depot Building
PO Box 458
100 Tony Garcia Drive
Holly, CO 81047
Mayor Vance Brian, Jr. presides over board meetings every first Wednesday of the month at 7:00 p.m. in Board Chambers at Town Hall. The Board of Trustees is nonpartisan and elected at large. Current trustees are Blaine Ice (Mayor Pro Tem), Bill Kissell, Calvin Melcher, Rod Swisher, Johnnie Lyons, and Dan Tefertiller. Trustees serve staggered four-year terms, and the mayor is elected to a two-year term.
Meeting dates and times are subject to change. Public Notice of the meeting agenda, date, and time is posted at the Holly Post Office, Holly Laundry, and the Town of Holly.
If you have Google Earth installed, you can click this link to locate the Town Hall: Google Earth Location
ADA NOTICE: This notice is provided as required by Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. The Town of Holly does not discriminate on the basis of disability in admission to, access to, or operations of its programs, services, or activities. Questions or concerns may be forwarded to the office of the ADA Coordinator at: clerk@townofholly.com
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Music by Ty Harmon,
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Historic Holly
HOLLY SUGAR PLANT
“Holly Sugar” is one of Holly’s claims to fame that it can boast about, even though all that is left of the plant are a few buildings used today as storage. The first year’s production was 60,000 hand-sewn 100-pound bags of sugar. The factory at Holly was a tremendous boost to the economy and brought much business to the Town. At that time, the Holly Commercial Club promoted the sugar beet industry, offering $20 gold pieces as prizes for the most beets raised and the best sugar. Eventually, all Holly Sugar Properties in the Arkansas Valley were disposed of, and the sugar beet industry itself ended in the late 1970s.
HOLLY SS RANCH HORSE BARN
The stone barn across the railroad tracks at the south end of Holly’s Main Street was built with rifle ports instead of windows in 1871. In light of the continuing Indian incidents of the times, this would seem to be a sensible type of construction for one of the first buildings at the location.
It was built with sandstone, quarried locally and held together with a mixture of mud and straw (probably prairie grass). The Holly SS Ranch was established by Hiram S. Holly, a Connecticut native. This was one of the largest cattle ranches in the west. The cattle owned under the “SS” brand amounted to about 35,000. In addition to buildings of stone, Hiram S. Holly’s name is perpetuated by a thriving town named for him.
