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Unincorporated community in Illinois, United States
Holder, Illinois
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 40°27′04″N 88°48′15″W / 40.45111°N 88.80417°W / 40.45111; -88.80417
CountryUnited States
StateIllinois
CountyMcLean County
TownshipOld Town Township
Elevation840 ft (260 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (CST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code309

Holder is an unincorporated community in Old Town Township, McLean County, Illinois.

Geography

Holder is located at 40°27′4″N 88°48′15″W / 40.45111°N 88.80417°W / 40.45111; -88.80417 (40.4511462, -88.8042368), and is located east of Bloomington.

History

Holder was laid out 7 December 1871 by Charles W. Holder. Holder was a Bloomington land developer who was associated with the development of many towns including Towanda, Illinois, Normal, Illinois. and Lyons, Iowa. The Lafayette, Bloomington and Mississippi Railroad, for which Padua Township had supplied $30,000 worth of bonds. The location of the station came as a surprise to local people who had expected that it would be closer to the center of the Township. A store was moved to the new Town. By 1872 freight service had begun of the railroad. The original town consisted of four blocks on the north side of the depot grounds. The depot was on the south side of the tracks and early grain elevators were on both sides of the tracks.

Demographics

Holder consists of approximately 25 residential dwellings.

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Notes

  1. History of McLean County Illinois (Chicago: LeBaron 1879, p. 567.
  2. William D. Walters, Jr. "Town-Making in Eastern McLean County, Illinois: A Geographic Microstudy," Bulletin of the Illinois Geographical Society, (June 1998) XL:2 pp. 32.32.
  3. Combined Indexed Atlas 1856 - 1914, McLean County, Illinois (Bloomington: McLean County Historical Society and McLean County Genealogical Society, 2006) p. 181

External links

Municipalities and communities of McLean County, Illinois, United States
County seat: Bloomington
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Map of Illinois highlighting McLean County
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Footnotes‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
  1. Osman Topo Map in McLean County IL
  2. "Osman, Illinois". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
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